Timothy Griffin Quotes

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

The inequality that exists today, … derives less from the unequal availability of opportunity than from the unequal ability to exploit opportunity …

All of us kids in the neighbourhood had to go shoeless for the same reason - all except the landlord's son, because his father had more income.

Just because I get to coast around in a nice, cushy little bubble, that's not how it is for everybody.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.

Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.

The reality in the neighborhood that I live in is: if I don't constantly reconcile what I have against what other people don't, either I need to leave and be around other people who have what I have, or I'm constantly engaged in this kind of dynamic flow of opportunity and sharing.

We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.

The gap between rich and poor is widening dramatically. There's a hangar at the Cairo airport for private jets, billionaires are on the Forbes list, and Egypt's annual per-capita income is two thousand dollars. How can you sustain that?

I don't care about wealth. What seems to be upsetting is institutionalizing the advantages that wealth gives you.

Elites always tell poor people, “Work hard and play by the rules.”

Welfare for the wealthy simply can no longer be afforded.

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

It's not an underclass anymore; it's an outer class.

When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are united.

There are two Americas. One which influences government and economic policy and the other which must live with the results.

If work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

In a reverse of past history, today the poorer one is the more time he has available.

It is not fair that some people should have a better chance in life simply because of where they live.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.