Jennifer Lawrence Hollywood Reporter's Leadership award acceptance speech

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Jennifer Lawrence received the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award at The Hollywood Reporter’s 2017 Women in Entertainment, Dec 6. Lawrence speaks of embracing her platform and quoted Elie Wiesel in her acceptance speech saying, “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.”

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[erika92]

Her quote is..nice, but.. shame is the ultimate silencer in regards to victims of assault. And I'm not gonna get angry at women who can't come forward for myriad reasons.

But I do agree that we need to at least voice our condemnation of oppressors. I know people don't think she's genuine, but she's spoken up for a number of issues in the industry. That's at least something.

[imnotasquirrel]

i think she's genuine in caring about the issues she talks about, but that also her privilege often bleeds through in how she addresses it. like that open letter she wrote after trump where she said how we shouldn't ~blame anyone or riot, and told immigrants/poc/lgbtq ppl that we should be loud and unafraid. easy for u to say, jen.

i like her using that quote in this speech though. better than ppl who try to draw a false equivalence in ~not choosing sides~

[erika92]

ia, it's easy 2 be tone def when ur rich af lol

[pastrieschick]

she def strikes me as very newly enlightened. you know, she JUST realized there's injustice in the world and she's outraged about it, and she wants people to know about it. very college student. not that that's a bad thing, it just makes a statement seem really simple sometimes.

[scarygibberish]

She's an actress, why is she always so terrible when reading from a teleprompter?

[bellwetherr]

usually your scripts aren't fifty feet away and scrolling

[bellwetherr]

i did a mock-newscast once in one of my old jobs and it was not fun lol

[ellaellaeheheh]

taking sides really is important.

[su_metal]

good for you, girl

[badbitch19]

She's the youngest woman ever to receive that prestigious award.Good for her !

Another good speech as well.

[bellwetherr]

ok but to tbf, it's only been an award for like what? five years?