45 Movie Quotes about Oppression (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Feb 24, 2026

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.

11 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

12 Slaves are wealth, Commander. The more slaves we have, the more bricks we make.

Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956)

13 The evil that men should turn their brothers into beasts of burden, to slave and suffer in dumb anguish, to be stripped of spirit and hope and faith, only because they're of another race, another creed.

Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956)

14 Is this what nature intended for us? To be forcibly addicted to these smoke machines in man-made wooden slat work camps? Living out our lives as honey slaves to the white man?

Jerry Seinfeld as Barry B. Benson in Bee Movie

15 I'm against the war in Vietnam. I've said on occasions in the press, I don't think black people should go to Vietnam and fight Asian, yellow people who've never lynched us, raped us, called us niggers, deprived us of freedom, justice, equality...

Muhammad Ali in The Greatest (1977)

16 My life was short and glorious, but my death is long and oppressive.

Achilles in Ulysses (1954)

17 Crucify their leaders. Sell the rest as slaves.

Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

18 We've burned their villages, we've crucified their leaders, we've enslaved their young.

James Mason as Timonides in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

19 Fires go out, the dead are buried, the slaves die, slowly. But their hatred that we leave behind us never dies!

James Mason as Timonides in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

20 We keep you alive to serve this ship. Row well and live.

Charlton Heston as Judah Ben Hur in Ben-Hur (1959)