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The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television.
Lech Walesa
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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
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Deep faith eliminates fear.
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I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.
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I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
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It all came from there, Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.
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Without a single shot we've managed to liberate the world of communism but now there is a need for a global solidarity.
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In many parts of the world the people are searching for a solution which would link the two basic values: peace and justice. The two are like bread and salt for mankind.
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Democracy is made up of three elements. One is whether the laws support pluralistic principles. The second is whether the people take advantage of these laws. The third element is whether the peoples' wallets are thick enough to benefit from this democracy.
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Words are plentiful deeds are precious.
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The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.
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I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.
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I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
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My health is very much improved.
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If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.
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We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity.
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I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.
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Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.
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I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
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This is the moment of your defeat you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.
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What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.
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