04/26/1983
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"Solidarity symbolizes the battle of real workers in a so-called workers' state to sustain the fundamental human and economic rights they began to win in Gdansk in 1980."
"It's up to us to begin the long, hard process of making government once more the servant rather than the master of a proud and independent people."
"If I wasn't [optimistic] I'd never have left the ranch to come here in the first place."
"The days of sensational, quick victories are mostly behind us."