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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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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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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'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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The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.
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When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.
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The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
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Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.
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Capitalism is in crisis.
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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 am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.
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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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I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world.
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There is something of the warrior in me.
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In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.
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For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.
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My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.
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I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
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Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
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My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.
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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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