Quote of the day
It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
Adam Michnik
Born: October 17, 1946 (age 79)
Bio: Adam Michnik is a Polish historian, essayist, former dissident, public intellectual, and the editor-in-chief of Poland's largest newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.
Known for:
- The church and the left (1992)
- Letters from prison and other essays (1985)
- Letters from freedom (1998)







