The leaders of the "Me Too" movement on Wednesday published an open letter to Christine Blasey Ford, the college professor who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh Brett Michael KavanaughHarris faces pivotal moment with Supreme Court battle Poll: 59 percent think president elected in November should name next Supreme Court justice Feinstein 'surprised and taken aback' by suggestion she's not up for Supreme Court fight MORE of sexual assault, thanking her for coming forward with her story.

“The result of your testimony runs deeper and wider than who sits on that court seat,” read the letter, which was signed by Me Too movement founder Tarana Burke and other prominent activists. “You showed a world of discounted people what courage looks like.”

Ford told the Senate Judiciary Committee last month that she thought Kavanaugh might accidentally kill her when she says he pinned her down on a bed, groped her and put his hand over her mouth at a party in 1982 when they were both in high school.

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Kavanaugh has denied the allegations brought by Ford and other accusers. The Senate confirmed him last week in a 50-48 vote, and he heard his first cases as a Supreme Court justice Tuesday.

The letter from the Me Too leaders also praised Ford as a “hero” for coming forward, saying her “sacrifice was not made in vain.”

The leaders described how Ford reminded them of their own traumas and of times when they felt their stories of sexual assault had been doubted.

“We were afraid for you,” they wrote in the letter. “Because we remembered.”

They characterized her testimony as coming from someone who had shown "up for duty not as a superhero, but as a fully human woman," and said she showed them "that the new hero — the kind of heroism called for in this moment — is a woman facing the patriarchy with no weapons other than her voice, her body, and the truth.”

Burke said in an interview with The New York Times on Tuesday that Ford’s testimony reminded her of the testimony of Anita Hill, who accused then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment in 1991.

Burke told the newspaper she believes society has improved culturally since then, if not politically.

“Me Too gives us a different framework for even talking about it,” she told The Times. “As much as our government has not, we have certainly moved forward.”