“ 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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“ I believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what mattered were borders and rival blocs. ”
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“ It takes really a long while for people to learn to take advantage of (democracy). So the legal framework of democracy can function everywhere. But as we say in Poland, it's hard to make a bull move unless it really wants to. ”
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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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“ 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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“ I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction. ”
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“ Here the (Soviet) bear got his teeth knocked out. He could no longer bite other nations trying to break away to freedom. ”
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“ I got politics and economics moving and then others took over. ”
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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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“ I believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what mattered were borders and rival blocs. ”
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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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“ 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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“ The higher the technology, the higher the freedom. Technology enforces certain solutions: satellite dishes, computers, videos, international telephone lines force pluralism and freedom onto a society. ”
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“ The higher the technology, the higher the freedom. Technology enforces certain solutions: satellite dishes, computers, videos, international telephone lines force pluralism and freedom onto a society. ”
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“ The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being. ”
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“ The higher the technology, the higher the freedom. Technology enforces certain solutions: satellite dishes, computers, videos, international telephone lines force pluralism and freedom onto a society. ”
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“ Here the (Soviet) bear got his teeth knocked out. He could no longer bite other nations trying to break away to freedom. ”
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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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“ I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction. ”
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“ We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless. ”
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“ Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness. ”
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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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“ He did not tell us to make a revolution, he did not call for a coup, but he was so suggestive that we all had to define ourselves. The Polish nation and many other nations awoke. ”
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“ I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people. ”
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“ I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction. ”
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“ He did not tell us to make a revolution, he did not call for a coup, but he was so suggestive that we all had to define ourselves. The Polish nation and many other nations awoke. ”
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