Purple Ribbon

A purple ribbon is worn to raise awareness for various causes, including:

  • ADD and ADHD
  • Adoption
  • Alzheimer's disease
  • Anti-Gay Bullying
  • Arnold-Chiari Malformation
  • Victims of 9/11
  • Child Abuse
  • Crohn's Disease
  • Animal abuse
  • Cystic Fibrosis
  • Domestic violence
  • Dyscalculia
  • Eating Disorder Awareness
  • Epilepsy
  • Father's Rights and Parental Rights
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Gastrointestinal cancer
  • Hidradenitis Suppurativa
  • Homelessness
  • Huntington's disease
  • Lupus
  • Macular degeneration
  • Migraine
  • Overdose Prevention
  • Pancreatic cancer
  • Hemiplegia Hemiparesis or Pediatric Stroke
  • Proportional representation voting system for UK elections (May 2010)
  • Pulmonary hypertension
  • Religious tolerance
  • Rett Syndrome www.rettsyndrome.org
  • Suicide Prevention
  • Sarcoidosis
  • Thyroid cancer
  • Ulcerative Colitis
  • Wildland Firefighters
  • Xenophobia and Homophobia (Austria 2009)
  • Rachel Kohn Birthday Awareness Month (1985 - current)
  • Barney The Purple Dinosaur Prevention

Famous quotes containing the words purple and/or ribbon:

    “O’er her warm cheek and rising bosom move
    The bloom of young desire and purple light of love.”
    —Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

    “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)