- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
My struggle led to the reunification of Germany and the creation of the state of Europe. We destroyed the borders; globalisation is on the horizon.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tomorrow there will be no division to Europe and Asia. These are old concepts that would remain only on maps. Everything will be united. Companies will be united. It is a process of structures growing due to the technological progress.
- Lights
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to light the lights of patriotism.
- Nov 07, 2020
I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Struggle
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- Nov 07, 2020
My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.
- Frustration
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided to get to know my opponents and their arguments.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is something of the warrior in me.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had my own battle tactics.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.
- Dormant
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.
- Chosen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism is in crisis.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have more than 100 honorary Ph.D.s.
- Knees
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot stand for more than half an hour in one place.
- Essential
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- Nov 07, 2020
I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am no politician.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a fatalist.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People always ask me, 'Lech, aren't you afraid of being killed?' And as an answer I shrug my shoulders.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have a vision, and I know I'm right.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are most important.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.
- Painful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to look a man in the eye.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I use many different gadgets connected with computers; I use PCs, laptops and a Palm Pilot. I also use the Internet to visit websites, especially within Polish-language Internet. I usually go to political discussion groups and sites - of course, as I use my real name, people never believe that they are chatting with me!
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I risked my life.
- Improved
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- Nov 07, 2020
My health is very much improved.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.
- Majority
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- Nov 07, 2020
No minority should climb all over the majority.
- Communism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poles finished communism, and Great Britain profited significantly from this.
- Longer
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- Nov 07, 2020