‘Sex and the City’ Actress Dedicates Her Award to Activists Fighting Trump

‘My love, my gratitude and undying respect go out to all the people in 2017 who are refusing to just stand’

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The "Sex and the City" actor Cynthia Nixon dedicated her Tony Award tonight to activists fighting Donald Trump.

Nixon, whom identifies as a bisexual, also "shared" the award with her wife, the education activist, Christine Marinoni. "I share this with my God-sent wife and our beloved children, Sam, Charlie, and Max," she said.

Nixon, after winning a Best Actress Tony, said modern America recalls the world portrayed in the play she's staring in, "Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes."

"It is a privilege to appear in Lillian Hellman's eerily prescient play in this specific moment in history," Nixon said. "Eighty years ago, [Hellman] wrote, 'There are people who eat the Earth, and eat all the people on it, and other people who just stand around and watch them do it.'" The allusion clearly imagined Trump as the person who today "eat all of the people on it" by trying to amass wealth from others. 

Dedicating her award, Nixon said, "my love, my gratitude and undying respect go out to all the people in 2017 who are refusing to just stand and watch them do it."

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