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Quote by Lech Wałęsa
They wanted us to be afraid of the tanks, of the guns, and instead we don’t fear them at all.
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The speaker says that an unnamed group expected tanks and guns to frighten them. Instead, those weapons have no power to create fear. The statement presents this lack of fear as a direct rejection of the threat, turning the weapons from symbols of control into something the speaker and others refuse to be intimidated by.
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- U.S. Congressional Record, reproducing a March 8, 1981 Washington Post interview
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