Polish, Catholic | ''I am a Pole – that word acquires a deeper meaning. I am one not only because I speak Polish, or because others speaking this language are spiritually closer to me and more understandable. I’m a Pole also because beside the sphere of private, individual life I likewise know the collective life of my nation. I am a Pole because as a part of the nation, besides my own personal business and interests, I also espouse national causes, the interests of Poland as a whole. Those are supreme values for which one must sacrifice all that one is not permitted to sacrifice for personal matters. I am a Pole – that means that I belong to the Polish nation throughout all of its territory and all of its existence in the past, the present, and the future. … I am a Pole – thus with all the breadth of my spirit I live the life of Poland, her feelings and thoughts, her needs, desires and aspirations. … I am a Pole – therefore I have Polish duties: and these all the greater, and my dedication to them is all the stronger, the more decent kind of human I represent". — Roman Dmowski

4856 posts