The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
Money can't buy happiness.
The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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