Miep Gies Quotes

• I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.

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  Hero, Done, Decent

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• I don't want to be considered a hero.... Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.

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  Growing Up, Hero, Helping Others

  "Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank, dies". www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2010.

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• People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.

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  Thinking, People, Special

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• Real strength is being able to carry on when times are hard.

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  Real, Able, Real Strength

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• Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

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  Losing, Opinion, Failing

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• We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.

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  People, Needs, Helping

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• I have never wanted special attention. I was only willing to do what was asked of me and what seemed necessary at the time.

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  Special, Attention, Wanted

  Miep Gies (2012). “Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• I myself am just an ordinary woman. I simply had no choice.

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  Choices, Ordinary

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• Too often, when people are in trouble they look for scapegoats.

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  People, Looks, Trouble

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• You are the heroes. You are the heroes everyday.

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  Hero, Everyday

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• I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.

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  Thinking, Holocaust, Bosnia

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• Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage.

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  Children, Use, Internet

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