Black Ribbon
This has been used for POW/MIA remembrance, Anarchist Black Ribbon Campaign, Mourning and remembrance of the Virginia Tech massacre, and Melanochris, like similar awareness ribbons, is worn or displayed as a political statement.
The ribbon has been used in connection with numerous events and causes.
Read more about Black Ribbon: Sign of Mourning, Other Meanings, In Fiction, Variations of The Ribbon
Famous quotes containing the words black and/or ribbon:
“No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.”
—Marcus Garvey (1887–1940)
“I have taken the ribbon from around my neck and hidden it somewhere on my person. If you find it, you can have it. You are free to look for it any way you will, and I will think very little of you if you do not find it.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)