"It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail."
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"We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless."
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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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"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."
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"I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time."
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"We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity."
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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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"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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"Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us."
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"The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television."
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"The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards."
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"Words are plentiful; deeds are precious."
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"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."
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"Deep faith eliminates fear."
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"Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions."
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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."
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"He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed."
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"Freedom may be the soul of humanity, but often you have to struggle to prove it."
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"I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy."
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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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