Wallenberg Quotes & Sayings

I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible — Raoul Wallenberg

Although most well-informed people have heard of Wallenberg today, many, including Jews, know less about him than about Oscar Schindler, who saved far fewer people and in any case profited from their forced labor. — Alex Kershaw

Never postpone until tomorrow what you can postpone until the day after. — Raoul Wallenberg

As human rights throughout the world continue to be abused, Raoul Wallenberg stands as a courageous example that should inspire us all, — Elizabeth May

I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is. — Raoul Wallenberg

One person can make a difference. — Raoul Wallenberg

There is a law in the Archipelago that those who have been treated the most harshly and who have withstood the most bravely, who are the most honest, the most courageous, the most unbending, never again come out into the world. They are never again shown to the world because they will tell tales that the human mind can barely accept. Some of your returned POW's told you that they were tortured. This means that those who have remained were tortured ever more, but did not yield an inch. These are your best people. These are your foremost heroes, who, in a solitary combat, have stood the test. And today, unfortunately, they cannot take courage from our applause. They can't hear it from their solitary cells where they may either die or remain for thirty years like Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who was seized in 1945 in the Soviet Union. He has been imprisoned for thirty years and they will not give him up. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn