--- title: Golden Globes 2017: Read Meryl Streep's Speech description: Meryl Streep used her acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award during the Golden Globes to call out President-elect Donald Trump canonical: https://time.com/4628147/read-meryl-streeps-powerful-golden-globes-speech/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-09T05:18:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:36:41.511Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Read Meryl Streep's Powerful Golden Globes Speech og:description: "When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose" og:url: https://time.com/4628147/read-meryl-streeps-powerful-golden-globes-speech/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3c94ab7a88b09823/6988b4c0bc6cfc3a923dfb85/gettyimages-631264636.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Meryl Streep's Powerful Golden Globes Speech twitter:description: "When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3c94ab7a88b09823/6988b4c0bc6cfc3a923dfb85/gettyimages-631264636.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read Meryl Streep's Powerful Golden Globes Speech by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Jan 9, 2017 5:18 AM UTC  Meryl Streep accepts the Cecil B. DeMille Award during the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel, Jan.8, 2017 in Beverly Hills, Calif. Meryl Streep accepts the Cecil B. DeMille Award during the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel, Jan.8, 2017 in Beverly Hills, Calif.Paul Drinkwater—NBCUniversal/Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Jan 9, 2017 5:18 AM UTC Meryl Streep used her [acceptance speech](http://time.com/4628072/golden-globes-2017-meryl-streep-donald-trump-speech/) for the Cecil B. DeMille Award during the [Golden Globes](http://time.com/4622027/golden-globes-2017-winners/?xid=homepage) to call out President-elect Donald Trump, urge the importance of press freedom and remind those in Hollywood of the responsibility of empathy. Noting specifically a moment during the presidential election campaign during which Trump [mocked](http://time.com/4127857/donald-trump-disability/) a disabled reporter (something he [later denied](http://time.com/4128128/donald-trump-kovaleski-journalist-disability/)), Streep voiced her heartbreak at the use of cruelty. “And this instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing,” she said. “Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence.” Read the full transcript of her speech below. --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4628147/read-meryl-streeps-powerful-golden-globes-speech/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4628147/read-meryl-streeps-powerful-golden-globes-speech/"},"headline":"Read Meryl Streep's Powerful Golden Globes Speech","datePublished":"2017-01-09T05:18:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:36:41.511Z","description":"\"When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose\"","url":"https://time.com/4628147/read-meryl-streeps-powerful-golden-globes-speech/","keywords":["Media","awards","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3c94ab7a88b09823/6988b4c0bc6cfc3a923dfb85/gettyimages-631264636.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3c94ab7a88b09823/6988b4c0bc6cfc3a923dfb85/gettyimages-631264636.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"74th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Show","caption":"74th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Show","creditText":"Paul Drinkwater—NBCUniversal/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/media/","name":"Media"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4628147/read-meryl-streeps-powerful-golden-globes-speech/","name":"Read Meryl Streep's Powerful Golden Globes Speech"}}]}] ```