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 writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn’t be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.”
—Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973)
“For this your mother sweated in the cold,
For this you bled upon the bitter tree:
A yard of tinsel ribbon bought and sold;
A paper wreath; a day at home for me.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)