Excepts from Scarlett Johansson’s remarks at the DNC as prepared for delivery:
It’s an honor to be here tonight. I speak to you not as a representative of young Hollywood, but as a representative of the many millions of young Americans, particularly young women, who depend on public and nonprofit programs to help them survive.
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My girlfriends from high school to this day still depend on Planned Parenthood and often Medicaid for important health care services. [Johansson has earned tens of millions of dollars during her career and will be paid $20 million to appear in the Avengers sequel]
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Whether we can get health care, afford college, be guaranteed equal pay — all at risk. And that’s why I’m here today — to use whatever attention I’m fortunate enough to receive to shed the spotlight on what’s at stake for all of us.