Zofia Kuratowska

Overview

Zofia Kuratowska born Skolimów-Konstancin, Poland July 20, 1921. Physician, activist, and politician. Leading female organizer of Solidarity movement, 1980. Protested state of war, 1982. President of Senate, 1989-97.

Quotations

“I promised—and we all said this—to tell the truth, and to vote for what we believe is fair, and against what is unfair, and to take into account what the people want, and that our goal was not improvement of the situation, but a change of the system.” (New York Times, June 23, 1983; photo wyborcza.pl)