“I want all the girls watching here now to know that a new day is on the horizon!” Oprah Winfrey said, in the way only Oprah Winfrey can, where it seems like a proclamation has been issued from on high. “And when that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight, and some pretty phenomenal men, fighting hard to make sure that they become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say, ‘Me too,’ again.”

It was the closing point of Winfrey’s speech accepting the Golden Globes’ Cecil B. DeMille award for career achievement, a speech that started with Winfrey reminiscing about being a young girl in 1964, watching Sidney Poitier become the first black man to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, and then took listeners through a lifetime spent watching other people fight for justice, some very publicly and some without their names ever becoming known.

“They’re the women whose names we’ll never know,” Winfrey said. “They are domestic workers and farmworkers. They are working in factories and they work in restaurants and they’re in academia, engineering, medicine, and science. They’re part of the world of tech and politics and business.”

She linked those women, who put up with horrible treatment from powerful men, with her own mother, who worked hard cleaning the houses of other people, in order to make sure that her daughter might go on to become a worldwide name, a talk show host, and an Oscar nominee.

And then she linked those women to the story of Recy Taylor, a black woman whose brutal rape at the hands of six white men in Alabama spoke to a time when men were, too often, not held accountable for their actions. (Though the men who raped Taylor admitted to their actions, two grand juries failed to indict them.) Taylor died 10 days ago, at 97.

But Winfrey, being Oprah Winfrey, didn’t leave listeners without hope, pivoting, masterfully, to the idea that for the powerful who are not held accountable, “Time is up.” She’s been central to the founding of the Time’s Up movement, designed to help create an equitable landscape where women’s reports are taken seriously.

Winfrey has always been great at translating the experiences of singular people to a larger struggle for justice, for recognition, or just for something more, and her Globes speech was a terrific reminder of how beautifully she can turn her story, or Sidney Poitier’s story, or Recy Taylor’s story, or your story, into every story. Her speech is worth reading in full.