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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.

~Adam Michnik

Topics: Believe Clearly Country He His Look Man Only Useful I Believe I Believe That

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Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.

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Topics: Achieving Art Conditions Given Goals Limits Political Politics Possible Situation

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Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.

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Topics: Bloody Defined Every First Freedom Phase Phases Power Regime Revenge Revolution Second Struggle Two

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Why am I such a Euro-enthusiast? Because I knew it was an anchor of democracy.

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Topics: Am Anchor Because Democracy Knew Why

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Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity is based on an opposite premise - that there are causes worth suffering and dying for.

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Topics: Aims Avoid Based Cause Causes Dying Ethos Mass Movement Often Opposite Premise Say Solidarity Suffering Worth

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Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.

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Topics: Art Politics Realize Realizing

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For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.

~Adam Michnik

Topics: Hope Imprisoned Poland Prague Spring Those Us

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The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.'

~Adam Michnik

Topics: About Between Bring Communist Communist Party Difference Face Former Human Human Face Main Members Mostly Others Party Prague Revolution Socialism Spring Velvet Wanted Who Work

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In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past.

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Topics: Appealed Communist Country Deeply Democratic Ideals Past Rooted War Were World World War

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The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.

~Adam Michnik

Topics: Armies Birth Both Confrontation Consciousness Countries Crushed Five Freedom Gave Lost Members Movement New Pact Police Polish Political Prague Spring Violence Warsaw

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Biography

Nationality: Polish

Type: Editor

Born: October 17th, 1946

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