45 Movie Quotes about Oppression (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

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.

31 You just want to keep me a slave.

Muhammad Ali in The Greatest (1977)

32 Fight for freedom? Fight for whose freedom? I'm not free right here. You got places on Miami Beach I can't go. My people not free.

Muhammad Ali in The Greatest (1977)

33 Yes, I agree! Put them on those lands. Let them produce for us, but as slaves. That is the way it has always been!

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

34 From each rebel city of Cappadocia, Syria, and Egypt, five thousand persons are to be taken and crucified, five thousand persons from each city to be burned alive.

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

35 I despise oppression, as do many others here. We need to be Spartan to endure it. And we need to be understood.

Rossana Podestà as Helen Of Troy in Helen of Troy (1956)

36 He takes two thirds of our harvest, and still think we cheat him!

Lamont Johnson as Ogami Itto, English Voice in Shogun Assassin (1980)

37 Yeah, I mean, come on, Pink. I can't believe this. You act like you're so oppressed.

Jason London as Randall "Pink" Floyd in Dazed and Confused (1993)

38 The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, the pangs of despised love, the law's delay.

Charlie Chaplin as King Shahdov in A King in New York (1957)

39 The Wadiyan people love being oppressed!

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

40 Graciously harken to us, as soldiers who call upon thee, that armed with thy power, we may advance from victory to victory and crush the oppression and wickedness of our enemies and establish thy justice among men and nations.

George C. Scott as General George Patton in Patton (1970)