Mark Ruffalo commiserated with attendees on the ACLU of Southern California’s Invoice of Rights Awards on Sunday evening, encouraging them to show “despair” into motion following Donald Trump’s decisive election victory final week.
The “Avengers” actor, a progressive activist who campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris, informed the gang on the Beverly Hilton: “We bought our asses kicked.”
“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, however typically it’s a must to spend just a little time in mattress earlier than it occurs. It was arduous to come back right here, actually,” he mentioned, in accordance with a video shared by The Hollywood Reporter.
Ruffalo, who was among the many honorees on the American Civil Liberties Union occasion, acknowledged “the grief and the concern” that attendees may be feeling, “as a result of I do know I’m.”
“We suffered an important loss,” he mentioned. “It’s a loss that touches deeply on a lot of what we’ve labored for and we’ve hoped for and dreamed of for such a very long time now.”
Then, he urged one thing “just a little unorthodox,” inviting everybody to face and hug the individual subsequent to them. “Inform one another you like one another, it’s going to be OK,” he mentioned.
He ended his speech with a name to motion.
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“I’ve felt demoralization and despair so many instances alongside the highway of all of this, and the message I hold getting is in the event you’re dropping hope, you’re not giving sufficient and also you’re not doing sufficient,” he concluded, in accordance with The Hollywood Reporter. “Motion is the very factor that pushes again despair.”
Different honorees on the occasion included WNBA star Brittney Griner and her spouse Cherelle, actor Will Ferrell, former “Saturday Night time Stay” author Harper Steele, and creator Viet Thanh Nguyen.
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The awards are supposed to “pay tribute to people who, by means of their pleasure, activism, and craft, have dared to create a extra simply and inclusive world,” in accordance with ACLU SoCal.