"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."
-Lech Walesa
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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
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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."
-Lech Walesa
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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
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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."
-Lech Walesa
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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
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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."
-Lech Walesa
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"I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind."
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"I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey."
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