Nicholas Kristof

"More preschoolers are shot dead each year than police officers are in the line of duty."

"More Americans have died from guns in the United States since 1968 than on battlefields of all the wars in American history."

The wealth gap between blacks and whites in the United States is "greater than the black-white wealth gap was in apartheid South Africa."

"The United States right now incarcerates more African-Americans as a percentage than apartheid South Africa did."  

"All of Liberia can produce less than one-third as much electricity as the Dallas Cowboys football stadium consumes at peak times."