"This is going to be really fun. It is bringing families together and engaging with the library," O'Donoghue said. "I hope people get excited about looking up old articles. This contest is a unique and creative way to get people to engage with Oakland."
"The use of 'El Cortito' was not about efficiency or productivity. It was about control, keeping workers stooped to ensure constant supervision—an assertion of dominance in the fields."
"Somewhere along the line, I found out that you could assume the virtue if you had it not. I don't know where I heard that, but I know from the time I went into the army, if you really acted like you were somebody, nobody really knew that you were nobody."
"We gathered them up to the best of our ability, trying to save them all, but as they were pretty badly mangled and terribly dirty, it was decided to destroy."