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:
“In families children tend to take on stock roles, as if there were hats hung up in some secret place, visible only to the children. Each succeeding child selects a hat and takes on that role: the good child, the black sheep, the clown, and so forth.”
—Ellen Galinsky (20th century)
“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)