Flag of Earth
The flag of Earth is a concept of a possible flag design meant to symbolize the planet Earth, humankind, or a possible world government. Proposed universal flags Citizen of the World Flag (1937) The flag was presented by George Dibbern on July 1, 1937, and the reason for its creation was the reluctance to use the flag of Nazi Germany on his yacht Te Rapunga. In 1939 residency was denied Dibbern as he refused to take up arms for any country and he became widely known as a “man without a country”. In 1940, in San Francisco, eight years before American actor and peace activist Garry Davis renounced his citizenship, Dibbern created his own passport declaring himself a “Friend of all peoples” and a "Citizen of the World." He described his flag with these words: It has a white ground with a red cross of St. George cutting a dark blue circle; and in the upper left corner is a blue star. The white stands for equal rights — not equality, but equal rights for men to evolve, each according to his individuality. On this right the human world stands or falls. The dark blue circle stands for the brotherhood