Minority Plank

Famous quotes containing the words minority and/or plank:

    What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
    Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

    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)