Lech Walesa Quotes
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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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Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.
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I don't like to look a man in the eye.
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I had my own battle tactics.
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We need to agree on common values for all religions as soon as possible, a kind of secular Ten Commandments on which we will build the world of tomorrow.
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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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We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.
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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 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 can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
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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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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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The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.
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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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It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
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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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One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
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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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There is something of the warrior in me.
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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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I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.
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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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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.