Lech Walesa
Lech Walesa
Lech Wałęsa; born 29 September 1943) is a retired Polish politician and labor activist. He co-founded and headed Solidarity, the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995...
NationalityPolish
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth29 September 1943
CityPopowo, Poland
CountryPoland
pluralism-is democracy pluralism
I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.
warrior
There is something of the warrior in me.
technology development individualism
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.
feelings bitterness filled
Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.
hands historical wheels
He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
authority chosen
Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
wife sometimes fear-god
I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.
goal peaceful way
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.
different borders generations
Irrespective of todays judgment and the price we had to pay in this generation, we were able to close an epoch of divisions, different blocs and borders, opening the way for an era of globalization.
tvs television communism
"It all came from there," Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.
loss fighting independence
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.
president poland active
President Lech Kaczynski is not at all active in Poland and his image abroad leaves a lot to be desired.
doubt world today
The United States is only one superpower. Today they lead the world. Nobody has doubts about it. Militarily. They also lead economically but they're getting weak. But they don't lead morally and politically anymore. The world has no leadership. The United States was always the last resort and hope for all other nations. There was the hope, whenever something was going wrong, one could count on the United States. Today, we lost that hope.
rights effort hatred
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.