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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.
Lech Walesa
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Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.
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The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.
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I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world.
Lech Walesa
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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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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
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I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.
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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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He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
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I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.
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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.
Lech Walesa
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It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
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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 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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