Every speech Viola Davis does is worthy of its own movie. Naturally, at the Women’s March 2018 in Los Angeles, Viola took it home and spoke truth to light.

“In the words of my fellow American Malcolm X, I’m gonna make it plain,” she said. She continued by saying the United States, which she called the “greatest nation on this planet,” put into place some horrific laws: “In 1877, America put laws in place called the Jim Crow laws,” and those laws “restricted the rights of quadroons, octoroons, blacks, Hispanics, Malays … they restricted medical, relationships, education, in all, “they restricted life.”

Then: “One out of every five women will be sexually assaulted or raped before she reaches the age of 18. That women of color, if they’re raped or sexually assaulted before the age of 18, are 66-percent more likely to be raped or sexually assaulted again. Seventy percent of girls who are sexually trafficked are girls of color. They are coming out of the foster care system, they are coming out of poverty. It is a billion dollar industry. When they go into the sex trafficking business — and they call it a business, trust me — more than likely, they are gang raped.”

She continued: “I am speaking today, not just for the #metoos, because I was a #metoo, but when I raise my hand, I am aware of all the women who are still in silence. The women who are faceless. The women who don’t have the money, and who don’t have the constitution, and who don’t have the confidence, and who don’t have the images in our media that gives them a sense of self-worth enough to break their silence that’s rooted in the shame of assault. That’s rooted in the stigma of assault.”