Minority Plank

Famous quotes containing the words minority and/or plank:

    “A city built upon mud;
    A culture built upon profit;
    Free speech nipped in the bud,
    The minority always guilty.
    Why should I want to go back
    To you, Ireland, my Ireland?”
    —Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)

    “If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)