A biography for Lech Walesahasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.”
“I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.”
“There is something of the warrior in me.”
“I'm a fatalist.”
“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.”
“Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, 'Earth' meaning the riches of the earth, simple physical work. That is why there were wars, the movement of frontiers, war over riches.”