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85 quotes by Lech Walesa

Lech Wałęsa (English pronunciation: /ˌlɛk vəˈwɛnsə/; Polish: [ˈlɛx vaˈwɛ sa] ( listen); born 29 September 1943) is a Polish politician, trade-union organizer, philanthropist and human-rights activist. A charismatic leader, he co-founded Solidarity (Solidarność), the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995. Wałęsa was an electrician by trade....
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No minority should climb all over the majority.

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Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.

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I cannot stand for more than half an hour in one place.

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I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

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I had my own battle tactics.

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My character and personality is today and tomorrow; I do not work well remembering further back.

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Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.

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Technology helped end communism by bringing in information from the outside.

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Communism in Cuba will collapse sooner or later because you can't control the free flow of information. Communism prevents organizations from... →

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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... →

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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... →

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When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can... →

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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... →

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