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In Poland A Man Must Be One Thing: White Or Black, Here Or There, With Us Or Against Us -- Clearly, Openly, Without Hesitations. . . . We Lack The Liberal, Democratic Tradition Rich In All Its Gradations. We Have Instead The Tradition Of Struggle: The Extreme Situation, The Final Gesture.

-Ryszard Kapuscinski

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In Poland A Man Must Be One

Ryszard Kapuscinski

In Poland A Man Must Be One Thing: White Or Black, Here Or There, With Us Or Against Us -- Clearly, Openly, Without Hesitations. . . . We Lack The Liberal, Democratic Tradition Rich In All Its Gradations. We Have Instead The Tradition Of Struggle: The Extreme Situation, The Final Gesture.

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