I argue for the rejection of a widespread assumption in social justice literature: that allies require authorization from the oppressed groups they seek to support due to a supposed lack of epistemic authority to understand others’ oppression. I call this the Authorization Thesis. Drawing on Lidal Dror (2023) and Emily Tilton (2024), I argue that the lived experience of oppression is neither necessary nor sufficient for the determination of one’s epistemic authority, and, so, authorization is similarly neither necessary nor sufficient for one’s allyship. Instead, I develop a Political Commitment Account of Allyship. On my account, what determines one’s epistemic authority is the achievement of a standpoint on oppression, and what constitutes one’s allyship is the demonstration of a principled commitment to advancing justice by achieving and acting on that standpoint, regardless of group membership and/or authorization.