If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can …

Howard Thurman
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If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose your temper, your equilibrium, then he can always keep you under subjection. ✨ Howard Thurman (2014). A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life, p.143, Beacon Press
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