Quote by Lech Walesa
I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced

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. – Lech Walesa

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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. – Lech Walesa

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Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness. – Lech Walesa

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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. – Lech Walesa

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