"A great divide will always be there between the poor and rich."

- Beth Cannon

"My grandparents worked at the mill [and] were both outside of the mill the day of the incident. If someone mentioned it, they would always say they couldn't talk about it." 

- Kathy Thompson Austin

"If they discussed it they would not have a job, will lose [their home], and probably would not be able to find future work to this day."

- Karen Stevens

"It wasn't just the Chiquola Mill... It was all over the South."

- Anonymous

"A very sad event that no one wants to talk about in Honea Path."

- Beth Cannon

"My great grandfather Claude Cannon was one of the men killed."

- Marie Cannon

The memories of the incident... have faded, but it remains a scar on our little town, a wound that has healed but will never disappear."

- Butch Moore