Lech Walesa Quotes
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Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
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I'm a fatalist.
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You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.
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I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this.
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I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
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The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
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Life creates new heroes, and new heroes always find it easiest to beat up on the previous heroes.
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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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Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.
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I had my own battle tactics.
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Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.
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We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
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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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We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.
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I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
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The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.
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As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
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One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
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I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.
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No minority should climb all over the majority.
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After the war, Germany fully confessed to all its dirty tricks. It's necessary to is draw a line under the past, even if people did something evil. Until we do, wounds won't heal.
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There is something of the warrior in me.
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Technology helped end communism by bringing in information from the outside.