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:
“O God, oh! of thine only worthy blood,
And my tears, make a heavenly Lethean flood,
And drown in it my sins’ black memory.
That thou remember them, some claim as debt;
I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)
“I’ll tell you how the Sun rose--
A Ribbon at a time--”
—Emily Dickinson (1831–1886)