"The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery." ― Frederick Douglass Topic(s): Happiness More From Frederick Douglass "One and God make a majority." "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." "I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs." More In Happiness "Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind."― Thomas Jefferson "The word “happiness” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."― Carl Jung "It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one’s earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison."― Ashley Montagu