42 Movie Quotes about Oppression (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Oct 1, 2025

Memorable quotes about oppression, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 One thousand guards and one prisoner.

Jack Black as Po in Kung Fu Panda

2 And you will once again be fighting for our freedom. Not from tyranny, oppression or persecution. But from annihilation.

Bill Pullman as Thomas J. Whitmore in Independence Day (1996)

3 And what are you? So full of hate you just wanna go and fight everybody because you've been whipped and chased by hounds.

Matthew Broderick as Colonel Robert Gould Shaw in Glory (1989)

4 It's Lotso. He's made us into a pyramid, and he put himself on top!

Michael Keaton as Ken Doll in Toy Story 3

5 When you oppress people, they rise up in a fiery anger!

John C. Reilly as Dale Doback in Step Brothers (2008)

6 Beloved Oppressor, I have just received disturbing news.

Sacha Baron Cohen as Admiral General Aladeen in The Dictator (2012)

7 Beloved Oppressor, try to get some sleep. Tomorrow is your big speech.

Sacha Baron Cohen as Admiral General Aladeen in The Dictator (2012)

8 It hurt me to wake up and see my beautiful black people suffer, victimized by the oppressive, harsh realities of the hood.

Shawn Wayans as Ashtray in Don't Be a Menace

9 Is it possible? Yes, it is possible in this fine world we live in. Not only possible, but done. Done, see? Under that sky there, every day. It'll continue being done until the last of that accursed race has perished in the face of the earth.

Orson Welles as Sydney Carton, Doctor Manette in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

10 But you can't have babies. -Don't you oppress me. -I'm not oppressing you. You haven't got a womb. Where is the fetus gonna gestate? You're gonna keep it in a box?

John Cleese; Eric Idle in Monty Python's Life of Brian