We feel their joy and their pain... "A whole lot of people are going to be really hurt by what is happening and coming our way and even if they are of a different political persuasion, we need to call on our empathy and not judge, but listen from our hearts and welcome them into our tent because we are going to need a big tent to resist successfully what is coming at us.
The Oscar winner delivered a powerful speech urging people to "be brave" and "stay in community" at the star-studded event over the weekend as she was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement award at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
"Have any of you ever watched a documentary about one of the great movements, like aartheid or civil rights or stonewall and asked yourself, would you have been brave enough to walk the bridge?
We must not isolate, we must stay in community, we must help the vulnerable and find ways to project an inspiring vision of the future.
She reflected on how Hollywood banded together amid McCarthyism in the late 1950s and called for those in the industry to unite once again to "resist successfully" the current hostile political climate.
