Tranlation to English- does it sound good?

I translate text from Polish to English and I have problems with some sentences (especially with questions). Can somebody check whether I made any mistakes?

We are different. We look different. We speak differently. We think differently. We believe in different things. We pray to different gods. We have different traditions. We have different customs. But it doesn't matter how much we differ from each other, because we all have one thing in common. Somewhere deep inside each of us resides the need to defend the weak. Everyone can feel like a hero for a little while.

But if only to animals we can be a hero? Don’t other creatures deserve our kindness, just because they are not us? Can we be a voice of the voiceless?

Can we defend those who are not able to defend themselves?
You need a bit of courage to change yourself. You need a bit of courage to go in different way than most of the people

Perhaps we will be then ourselves. Perhaps we will doubt that our actions mean something. That we have an affect on something. Maybe they will laugh at us. Maybe they will criticize us. Maybe they will not understand us. It is much easier to do what you did the whole life. It is much easier to don’t question things We have taught us since childhood. It is much easier to live when we are not aware of how much suffer make our choices. It is much easier .. close your eyes. And it can be for some insignificant stupid, and for some even funny. Some may say I'm exaggerating, that what we do doesn’t make much sense. But for me, a person who saw injustice

and decides to do something about it is a hero. And not just for me ...