Quote of the Day for 2016-06-07

"It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory."

— Thomas Mann (1875-1955) "The War and the Future," Order of the Day (1942)

Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix (1830)

Quote of the Day for 2015-10-26

"The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors."

— Henri Becque (1837-1899) Conferenes, Notes, Poems, Letters

Mildred and Richard Loving in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 1965, before their case, Loving vs. Virginia, had reached the Supreme Court. (Photograph: Bettmann/CORBIS)