Quotes About Progress

When people say 'American soccer,' they think of the U.S. national team. But American soccer also includes Major League Soccer, and until we have a league that produces players at the rate other leagues around the world do, I don't believe we'll ever get to where we want to be.

Soccer is always changing and evolving, and I think our national team has had to change with the times.

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.

If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn't work. You have to do it all together.

Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.

I am unapologetic about the need for social change, greater inclusion, and equity.

I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.

Social change doesn't happen in the Arab region through dramatic confrontation, beating, or indeed, baring of breasts, but rather through negotiation.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process.

Opposition to social change is but one pillar of contemporary Republicanism.

It's clear to me that millions of young people understand and value my father's legacy of social change through nonviolence.

The fact that, for so many generations, ordinary, everyday Americans came out of the closet and told their family and friends about who they are has laid the foundation for public sentiment to change. They got comfortable in their own skins to be able to share themselves with family and friends. This is where social change took place.

I want to be a role model and an advocate for social change.

Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across the country would sympathise with the idea that there are lots of people with talent and ability all across this country who want to make more of themselves and part of the responsibility of government is to make that happen.

The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of ethnicity, race, or social class - are more likely to make academic gains in mathematics, reading, and often science than they are in segregated ones.

We can't continue with this social democracy here in Brazil.

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.

Only individual creativity can bring about real social development.

Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have.

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