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:
“A taste for drink, combined with gout,
Had doubled him up forever.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“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)