USWNT's Megan Rapinoe Gives Speech After World Cup Victory Parade

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"This is my charge to everyone: We have to be better. We have to love more, hate less. We've got to listen more and talk less. We've got to know that this is everybody's responsibility." - Megan Rapinoe

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00:00This is my charge to everyone. We have to be better. We have to love more, hate less.

00:08We gotta listen more and talk less. We gotta know that this is everybody's responsibility.

00:14Every single person here. Every single person who's not here. Every single person who doesn't want to be here.

00:20Every single person who agrees and doesn't agree. It's our responsibility to make this world a better place.

00:27I think this team does an incredible job of taking that on our shoulders and understanding the position that we have

00:36and the platform that we have within this world. Yes, we play sports. Yes, we play soccer.

00:41Yes, we're female athletes, but we're so much more than that. You're so much more than that.

00:47You're more than a fan. You're more than someone who just supports sports.

00:52You're more than someone who tunes in every four years. You're someone who walks these streets every single day.

00:58You interact with your community every single day. How do you make your community better?

01:03How do you make the people around you better? Your family. Your closest friends.

01:08The ten closest people to you. The twenty closest people to you. The most hundred closest people to you.

01:15It's every single person's responsibility. There's been so much contention in these last years.

01:21I've been a victim of that. I've been a perpetrator of that. With our fight with the Federation.

01:27Sorry for some of the things I said. Not all of the things.

01:32But it's time to come together. This conversation is at the next step.

01:36We have to collaborate. It takes everybody. This is my charge to everybody.

01:41Do what you can. Do what you have to do. Step outside yourself.

01:46Be more. Be better. Be bigger than you've ever been before.

01:50If this team is any representation of what you can be when you do that, please take this as an example.

01:58This group is incredible. We took so much on our shoulders to be here today.

02:03To celebrate with you today. And we did it with a smile.

02:08So do the same for us. Please. I ask you.

02:13New York City, you're the mother****** best!

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