Other Uses/combined With Other Colours
At the Streamy Awards of 2010, white ribbons were worn in support of net neutrality.
White ribbons are used to signify support for self-harmers (from people who are not self-harmers themselves), while white and orange ribbons represent self-harmers who are trying to quit or have succeeded in doing so already.
White ribbons are used for teen pregnancy prevention awareness.
White ribbons have also been used to protest child pornography. The white is supposed to signify the protection of innocence and purity.
White ribbons are used to promote awareness for Severe Combined Immune Deficiency Disease (SCID) and SCID Newborn Screening.
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Famous quotes containing the words combined and/or colours:
“Pregnant women! They had that weird frisson, an aura of magic that combined awkwardly with an earthy sense of duty. Mundane, because they were nothing unique on the suburban streets; ethereal because their attention was ever somewhere else. Whatever you said was trivial. And they had that preciousness which they imposed wherever they went, compelling attention, constantly reminding you that they carried the future inside, its contours already drawn, but veiled, private, an inner secret.”
—Ruth Morgan (1920–1978)
“So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)