Lech Walesa Quotes

• The English are all right. They’re quiet, they’re slow, they count things carefully, they hesitate – and I’m switching to their track.

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• He who once became aware of the power of Solidarity and who breathed the air of freedom will not be crushed.

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• Deep faith eliminates fear.

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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?

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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 effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.

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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.

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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 hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

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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.

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

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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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• 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.

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• Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

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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.

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• 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.

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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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• 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.

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

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Birth:	29th September, 1943
Nationality:	Polish
Profession:	Politician

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