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> [“With the two sides entrenched, each began a campaign for public sympathy. The focus was wages. How much did Lawrence textile workers really earn? Ettor told the press that the average mill wage was $6 a week; mill owners countered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-watson/with-the-two-sides-entrenched-each-began-a-campaign-for-public/)

[Bruce Watson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-watson/)

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## More by Bruce Watson

> [“A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-watson/a-man-must-always-live-by-his-work-and-his-wages-must-at-least-be/)

[Bruce Watson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-watson/)

> [“But there was a time when light waged a heroic battle with darkness. It was a time when night skies were not bleached by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-watson/but-there-was-a-time-when-light-waged-a-heroic-battle-with-darkness/)

[Bruce Watson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-watson/)

> [“Light is the magician of the cosmos.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-watson/light-is-the-magician-of-the-cosmos/)

[Bruce Watson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-watson/)

> [“With the two sides entrenched, each began a campaign for public sympathy. The focus was wages. How much did Lawrence textile workers really earn?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-watson/with-the-two-sides-entrenched-each-began-a-campaign-for-public/)

[Bruce Watson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-watson/)

> [“But the bullet that killed Herbert Lee set off a string of firecrackers that clustered in a single summer, a season so radically different,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-watson/but-the-bullet-that-killed-herbert-lee-set-off-a-string-of/)

[Bruce Watson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-watson/)

> [“We have entered the Age of Light. The ages of steam and coal are long gone. With oil clinging to power, light is emerging…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-watson/we-have-entered-the-age-of-light-the-ages-of-steam-and-coal-are-long/)

[Bruce Watson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-watson/)

> [“You don’t represent the working men,” Haywood charged. “I do,” the congressman replied in a huff. “You are an employer, are you not?” “Yes.”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-watson/you-don-t-represent-the-working-men-haywood-charged-i-do-the/)

[Bruce Watson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-watson/)

> [“Stephen Colbert still mourns. “Grief,” he said, “will always accept the invitation to appear. It’s got plenty of time for you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-watson/stephen-colbert-still-mourns-grief-he-said-will-always-accept-the/)

[Bruce Watson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-watson/)

> [“nothing trite in SNCC’s founding statement: “Through nonviolence, courage displaces fear; love transforms hate. Acceptance dissipates prejudice, hope ends despair. Peace dominates war, faith…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-watson/nothing-trite-in-sncc-s-founding-statement-through-nonviolence/)

[Bruce Watson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-watson/)

> [“Atrocities, including the lynching of more than five hundred Mississippi Negroes—more than any other state—were ennobled as righteous. Lynching went unpunished, murder was “self-defense,”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-watson/atrocities-including-the-lynching-of-more-than-five-hundred/)

[Bruce Watson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-watson/)

> [“The volunteers merely dropped in for a summer, then went home to question America. Some would spearhead the events that defined the 1960s—the Berkeley…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-watson/the-volunteers-merely-dropped-in-for-a-summer-then-went-home-to/)

[Bruce Watson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-watson/)

> [“Light takes darkness vanish and worlds reappear. Light opens each day with a blaring overture, then throws its wands to earth and casts diamonds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-watson/light-takes-darkness-vanish-and-worlds-reappear-light-opens-each-day/)

[Bruce Watson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-watson/)

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