Quotable notes

"I feel that fortune has been deeply unfair. For our common struggle, I was awarded the Nobel Prize, given more than 100 honorary doctorates, elected Poland's president. I have a secure place in history. As to the activities of many of you, they may have already been forgotten. Therefore, I see myself only as a repository of all those honors, not their owner. They belong to all who fought at that time."

- Lech Walesa to a 3,000-strong crowd at the celebrations of Solidarity's 20th birthday on August 31, as quoted by the PAP news agency and cited by RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, September 17, 2000, No. 38, Vol. LXVIII

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