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Adam Michnik

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The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.


— Adam Michnik


#human-rights #politics #totalitarianism #freedom

I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.


— Adam Michnik


#iraq #iraq-war #saddam-hussein #war #iraq

I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.


— Adam Michnik


#american #dangerous #differently #i #i think

If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.


— Adam Michnik


#deaf #likely #more #much #outside

Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.


— Adam Michnik


#country #democratic #east #elected #election

Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.


— Adam Michnik


#america #duty #give #had #help






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After the Round Table Talks Lech Wałęsa told him to organize a big Polish national daily which was supposed to be an ‘organ’ of the Solidarity Citizens' Committee before the upcoming elections. In years 1980–1989 he was an adviser to both the Independent Self-governing trade union "Solidarity" (NSZZ „Solidarność”) in the Mazovia Region and to Foundry Workers Committee of “Solidarity”. On the basis of Gazeta Wyborcza assets Agora SA partnership came into existence.

Brought up in a family of convinced communists Michnik was one of the most relentless opponents of the communist regime while remaining faithful to the left-wing ethos. Adam Michnik (Polish pronunciation: [ˈadam ˈmixɲik]; born 17 October 1946 ) is a historian essayist former dissident public intellectual and the editor-in-chief of Poland's largest newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. A legendary figure of the Polish anti-communist oppostion he was imprisoned first after the 1968 March Events then after the imposition of the Martial Law in 1981.

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