Lech Walesa Solidarity Quotes & Sayings

What my Republican colleagues often don't understand is that labor is a human-rights issue. I have to remind them Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement brought down the Communist bloc. — Chris Smith

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience. — Lech Walesa

Without a single shot we've managed to liberate the world of communism but now there is a need for a global solidarity. — Lech Walesa

He who once became aware of the power of Solidarity and who breathed the air of freedom will not be crushed. — Lech Walesa

We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity. — Lech Walesa

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. — Lech Walesa

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. — Lech Walesa

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