45 Movie Quotes about Oppression (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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.

21 Welcome, troubled oppressed ones.

Deanna Oliver as The Brave Little Toaster in The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars

22 Besides, even if you didn't do it, I'm gonna punish you because I'm big and you're small, and I'm right and you're wrong. And there's nothing you can do about it.

Pam Ferris as Miss Trunchbull in Matilda (1996)

23 We love freedom. We love independence, to feel, to question, to resist oppression.

Richard Hatch as Captain Apollo in Battlestar Galactica (1978)

24 From the mountaintops of North Korea to the jungles of Zimbabwe, let every child laborer and sweatshop factory worker sing, Oppressed at last! Oppressed at last! Thank Aladeen, I am oppressed at last!

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

25 So, anyway, what you're saying, I'm the Man, Whitey, and you guys are the victims of a tyrannical, racist, oppressive society! -That's right, man. -Man, that sucks!

Chris Farley as Mike Donnelly in Black Sheep (1996)

26 General Black oppresses the people. He pleases himself all day at their expensive. He doesn't care for the people.

Quote from Return Of The Kung Fu Dragon

27 Black folks have never had anything in this city to call their own except humiliation and despair.

Denzel Washington as Coach Herman Boone in Remember the Titans

28 Man took dominion over man. The conquered were made to serve the conqueror. The weak were made to serve the strong. And freedom was gone from the world.

Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956)

29 My son would be a slave. His hands would be gnarled and broken from the brick pits, his back scarred from the taskmaster's whip, but in his heart would burn the spirit of the living God.

Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956)

30 If they are stained, it's with the mud of slavery. If they reek, it's with the stench of injustice.

Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956)