Jack Mayer Quotes

You see a man drowning, you must try to save him even if you cannot swim.

"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.

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.

Fear makes you weak; anger makes you strong.

To save one Jewish child, ten Poles and two Jews had to risk death. To betray that same child and the family that hid him required only one informer or, worse still, one blackmailer. The risk of being caught by the SS was not prison, but death- death for the entire family.

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