17 Quotes by Irena Sendler

The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility.

The world can be better if there’s love, tolerance and humility.

Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn’t allow us to forget.

Fear makes you weak; anger makes you strong.

I was taught by my father that when someone is drowning you don’t ask if they can swim, you just jump in and help.

Every child saved with my help is the justification of my existence on this Earth, and not a title to glory.

We all have to ask ourselves, “What would I have done?“. I agree with Wladyslaw Bartofszewski, one of the organizers of ZEGOTA, who said, “Only the dead have done enough.

The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.