Quotes About Representation

I'm enormously proud that I can do a deal with the National Women's Soccer League to showcase the power and passion of women athletes as positive role models, not only for my daughter but also for my son.

I have been involved with U.S. Soccer for 30 years, and I don't remember one senior woman in the organization that you would deal with on a daily basis in a position that was making decisions. That is a huge issue. How many times do you hear, 'There are no women around?' Well, they are fishing in the wrong pond.

For the average person walking down the street, they don't even know a women's soccer league exists in this country.

Sometimes women's soccer can be political.

I am really excited to be called into Canada Soccer's men's national team.

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

We need women to better reflect the social fabric of our society.

Women have a better understanding of social issues, and better representation gives them an opportunity to address these issues.

We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.

I want all of the work that I do to have a social justice footprint attached. I want it to move the needle forward when it comes to the perception of all people, but especially people of color.

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

As my audience grew more diverse, I started interjecting social justice advocacy and commentaries about LGBT equality, and it just kept growing more.

I don't believe we would've had nearly as diverse a Congress if it weren't for social media. I don't think that there would be the same appreciation or empathy for human rights across the world if it weren't for social media.

Fashion is such an insider's club, but slowly, the playing field is evening out. Through social media, everyone can have a front-row seat.

The brands that choose to use me, my agency and social media have given me a face and a voice.

I try to keep my social media really close to my personality. Then people can see exactly who I am and what I like to say and the message I want to bring.

I've got a Facebook page, but I've never put anything on it. I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because, otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me.

'6 Times' is an attempt to reinvestigate the social responsibility of sculpture. The body in question is a particular body, but it doesn't really matter whose it is.

If we elect people who have never been to public school, never had to worry about counting on Social Security, then how can they effectively legislate?

To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country.

I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.

I am the head of the Socialists, but the party is not my property.

Maybe we'd forgotten what socialists are meant to look and sound like. Well, now we've been reminded. They're meant to look and sound like Jeremy Corbyn.