Meryl Streep gives political, timely speech after accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award

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Meryl Streep received the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes on Sunday night and slammed Donald Trump, encouraged the media, and honored her late friend Carrie Fisher.

"Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners, and if you kick us all out, you'll have nothing to watch except for football and mixed martial arts, which are not arts," she said with a cracking voice near the beginning of her speech.

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Moments before that, she slammed President-elect Donald Trump for his "performance" of a disabled reporter last year at one of his rallies. "There was nothing good about it, but it did its job," she said. "It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I still can't get it out of my head because is wasn't in a movie, it was real life. That instinct to humiliate when it's modeled by someone in a public platform, it filters down into everyone's life because it gives permission for others to do the same.

"Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence," she continued.

At tonight's #GoldenGlobes we honor Hollywood legend Meryl Streep with the prestigious Cecil B. Demille Award. pic.twitter.com/dxpeCDNXY6 — Golden Globe Awards (@goldenglobes) January 9, 2017

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She then went on to the press.

"We need the principled press to hold power to account — to call them on the carpet — for every outrage," Streep said. "That's why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our constitution." She continued to ask her fellow stars to support the Community to Protect Journalists.

Finally, she gives a shout out to her fellow stars for their "active empathy" being showcased and honored during the Globes. With that, she ended with a quote from the late Carrie Fisher.

"As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia said to me once, 'Take your broken heart, make it into art.' Thank you," she said.

No, thank you, Streep.

The Twitter world quickly burst with approval of Streep's speech and praised her words.

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The annual DeMille award honors those with "outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment." Others in Streep's company include Denzel Washington, George Clooney, Woody Allen, Jodie Foster, Morgan Freeman, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Warren Beatty.