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On Sunday night at the Golden Globes, Meryl Steep was there to receive the Cecil B Demille Lifetime Achievement Award. However, in addition to accepting the award, Meryl Streep delivered a remarkably powerful message to Donald Trump about the importance of empathy.

Streep who is one of Hollywood’s most talented and acclaimed actors talked about the importance of a free and strong press, the importance of diverse voices in Hollywood and beyond and of course the importance of empathy.

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Streep was referencing Donald Trump’s famous mocking of a disabled reporter during his campaign for president.

Here is the video:

Here are some quotes from Streep’s speech:

“There was one performance this year that stunned me — it sank its hooks in my heart. Not because it was good, there was nothing good about it. But it was effective and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth,” she said. “It was the moment where the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter. Someone he outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it and I still can’t get it out of head because it wasn’t a movie, it was real life.”

“This instinct to humiliate when it’s modeled by someone in a public platform, it filters down into everybody’s life because it gives permission for other people to do the same,” Streep continued. “Disrespect invited disrespect, violence incites violence, and when the powerful use their position to bully others we all lose.”

“Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners,” she said, “so if you kick them all out, you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.”

 

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