Required Merit Badges

Famous quotes containing the words required, merit and/or badges:

“There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)

“Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to draw the plow through its furrows, or classed with idiots, lunatics and criminals in the laws and constitutions of the State, the principle is the same; for the humiliations of the spirit are as real as the visible badges of servitude.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)