Irena Sendler Quotes
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Humanity has understood nothing.
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Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.
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The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.
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After World War II, it seemed that humanity understood something, and nothing like that would happen again.
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People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter.
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Let me stress most emphatically that we who were rescuing children are not some kind of heroes. Indeed, that term irritates me greatly. The opposite is true. I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little.
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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.
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The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility.
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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.
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I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.
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I still carry the marks on my body of what those 'German supermen' did to me then. I was sentenced to death.
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I am the only person still alive of that rescuing group but I want everyone to know that, while I was coordinating our efforts, we were about twenty to twenty five people. I did not do it alone.
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Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.