The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless.
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.
The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.
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.