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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. "

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. "

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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. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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" I don't have regrets I didn't spend more time with my family because I've lived my life to the full, and you can't look back in regret. "

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

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" I'm a fatalist. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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" I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice. "

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" People always ask me, 'Lech, aren't you afraid of being killed?' And as an answer I shrug my shoulders. "

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