45 Movie Quotes about Oppression (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

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.

41 I tried to find out what was wrong, but she never had an answer except to say that... that something was oppressing her.

Vincent Price as Nicholas Medina, Sebastian Medina in The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

42 Now the oppressed have been given a mighty sword with which to strike back at their enemies.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Harry Tasker in True Lies

43 We, the soldiers of the national liberation front of America, in the name of the workers, and all the oppressed of this imperialist country, have struck a fatal blow to the racist police stick!

Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken in Escape from New York

44 Champion of the oppressed.

Bud Collyer as Clark Kent in The Adventures of Superman

45 We want them to know that we went down standing up among those that are fighting against our oppression.

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