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.

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.

One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.

"It all came from there," Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.

I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.

Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us.

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.