Matt Taibbi Quotes

Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely.

Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.

You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

When the producers of 'Why Poverty?' came to me to do a film about poverty in the United States, I asked if I could do a film about wealth instead. I tend to make films about perpetrators, rather than victims.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The one think I hate about rich people, is that they really think that they work harder than poor people.

There's always been a nasty strain of class prejudice ingrained in the condemnation of football's 'undeserving rich,' as if the working class is uniquely susceptible to being corrupted by money, and as if they deserve their wealth less than those born to it.

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

To see poor people, their benefits being cut, to see pensions of Americans who have worked like my father, all their lives, and taken away, to see the rich just accumulating more and more wealth. I mean, it seems to me that there has to be a point where you have to say, 'No, this has to stop.'