Irena Sendler quotes
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“The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility.”
-- Irena SendlerSource : "Holocaust Hero Turns 97" by Jim Sciutto, abcnews.go.com. February 15, 2007.
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“Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.”
-- Irena SendlerSource : "Irena Sendlerowa: Warsaw social worker who rescued thousands from the Jewish ghetto". Rupert Cornwell, The Independent, May 14, 2008.
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“I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality. The term ‘hero’ irritates me greatly – the opposite is true – I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little.”
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“Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.”
-- Irena SendlerSource : Irena Sendler's letter to the Polish Senate (2007), as quoted in "Irena Sendler, Lifeline to Young Jews, Is Dead at 98" by Dennis Hevesi, www.nytimes.com. May 13, 2008.
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“I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not.”
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“After World War II, it seemed that humanity understood something, and nothing like that would happen again. Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood. The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility.”
-- Irena SendlerSource : "Holocaust Hero Turns 97" by Jim Sciutto, abcnews.go.com. February 15, 2007.
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“Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.”
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“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.”
-- Irena SendlerSource : Irena Sendler's letter to the Polish Senate (2007), as quoted in "Irena Sendler: An Unsung Heroine" by Louis Bulow, www.auschwitz.dk. 2007.
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“If being a saint is complete devotion to a cause, bravery and altruism, then I think Mrs Sendlerowa fulfils all the conditions.I think about her the way you think about someone you owe your life to.”
-- Irena Sendler
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“When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.”
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Source : A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press
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“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”
Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
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