"There are always challenges with books , deciding what to include and what to omit."

“The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”

“Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.”

Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

“Freeman denied the claim that he was a “man of God”, saying that “the question of faith is whatever you actually believe is. We take a lot of what we're talking about in science on faith; we posit a theory, and until it's dis-proven we have faith that it's true. If the mathematics work out, then it's true, until it's proven to be untrue.”

“Boxing is the sweet science. So if you want to begin in the grass roots of boxing where women are on the same level as guys, you are talking hundreds of years. Men have been boxing everyday all day for a hundred years. So it will take some time. You will need to bring more young girls into the gym starting at 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. And it would have to be 100,000 of them.”

Source : Source: www.boxinginsider.com

“You'll get humbled right before you're blessed. It's just a test to make sure you can handle what's next.”

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”

“As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.”

“We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are.”