Adam Michnik Quotes
I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.
Michnik, Adam. Letters from Prison and Other Essays. Translated by Maya Latynski, University of California Press, 1985.
Despite the fact that many Americans saw communists and socialists as of the same ilk, socialists were very suspicious of communists—especially the “party discipline” and the lack of individual freedom, while the communists saw the socialists as just another form of fascism and attacked it violently. Later, the party line against socialists softened as Cold War communist strategy solicited assistance from the socialist, unaligned nations.
Prevented by the Military from ever taking office. She videotaped the lecture in secret in Burma and it was smuggled out and then broadcast by BBC. The dictatorial rule of the Military Junta was oppressing the people of Burma and she was the leader of the dissident forces.
Adam Michnik is a Polish historian, essayist, former dissident, public intellectual, and editor-in-chief of the Polish newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza.
