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• 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?

  Lech Walesa

  Faith, Use, Riches

  Quoted in Daily Telegraph (London), 14 Dec. 1988

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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.

  Lech Walesa

  Two, Justice, People

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• I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.

  Lech Walesa

  Falling In Love, Historical, 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.

  Lech Walesa

  Country, Europe, May

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• I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

  Lech Walesa

  Sympathy, Army, Past

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• 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.

  Lech Walesa

  Summer, Rights, People

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• We need a global parliament, a global government and possibly a global ministry for security.

  Lech Walesa

  Government, Needs, Ministry

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• Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism.

  Lech Walesa

  Democracy, Building, Imperialism

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• When he saw injustice, he wanted to do away with it. He saw communism, and he wanted to put an end to it.

  Lech Walesa

  War, Saws, Injustice

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• 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.

  Lech Walesa

  Love, Peace, Goal

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• I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.

  Lech Walesa

  Pluralism Is, Democracy, Pluralism

  "Walesa to meet with Jaruselski and the Pope on path towards pluralism" by Michael Simmons, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 1989.

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• Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.

  Lech Walesa

  Fall, Speaks Out, Silence

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• Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.

  Lech Walesa

  Communism

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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.

  Lech Walesa

  Needs, World, Communism

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• I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.

  Lech Walesa

  Knees, Prudence

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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.

  Lech Walesa

  Fighting, Loss, Independence

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• I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.

  Lech Walesa

  Decision, Reform, Made

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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.

  Lech Walesa

  Independent, People, Unions

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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.

  Lech Walesa

  People, Doe, World

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• The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.

  Lech Walesa

  Order, Law, Fundamentals

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• In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.

  Lech Walesa

  Mary, Virgins, Virgin Mary

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• There is something of the warrior in me.

  Lech Walesa

  Warrior

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• I hope to work harder than ever to help people around the world.

  Lech Walesa

  People, World, Helping

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• There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between

  Lech Walesa

  Legs, Should, Left

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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.

  Lech Walesa

  Yield, People, Unions

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