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

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.

Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

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.

This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.