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Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.


Walter Mosley

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WALTER ULBRICHT The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the fe...
WALTER ULBRICHT When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its det...
WALTER ULBRICHT The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democrati...
WALTER ULBRICHT In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
WALTER ULBRICHT The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individuall...
WALTER ULBRICHT Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan ...
WALTER ULBRICHT The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a f...
WALTER ULBRICHT The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the vict...
WALTER ULBRICHT Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for pe...
WALTER ULBRICHT This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
WALTER ULBRICHT It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.
WALTER ULBRICHT