"That's like a dream come true. Can you imagine a lowrider in the Palace of Fine Arts? Forty years after we were getting arrested for lowriding, now we're going to be at the Palace of Fine Arts." - Roberto Hernandez, San Francisco Lowrider Council president, reflecting on the significance of the event.
"In 1981, Hernandez and other lowriders created the San Francisco Lowrider Council as a response to what they described as a racist law that led to harassment and profiling by police departments across the state." - Discussing the historical challenges faced by lowriders and the formation of their advocacy group.
"The cruise to the Palace of Fine Arts was not easy. In 1958 California modified its vehicle code prohibiting any part of a modified car to have less clearance from the road than its lowermost portion of its rim." - Highlighting the legislative challenges that lowriders faced over the decades.
"They looked at us like criminals." - Nelson Alvarado sharing his experiences of profiling and policing as a lowrider, emphasizing the societal stigma they endured.
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