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Full Transcript: Oprah Winfrey's Speech at the Golden Globes

The actor and entrepreneur spoke about the #MeToo movement while accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 2018 Golden Globes.
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It was undeniably the most electrifying moment of the 2018 Golden Globes: Oprah Winfrey, the actor, author, entrepreneur, and humanitarian, accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award for outstanding contributions to entertainment, and gave a speech that captured the systemic inequality that’s still rooted at the heart of the entertainment industry. But Winfrey’s speech also offered a note of hope. It will be women, she said, who “become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say ‘Me too’ again.” Her words prompted a flood of speculation that Winfrey might be mulling an entry into politics, but more importantly, they captured the complicated dynamics of an evening where virtually all

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