Shayna Berkowitz:
CLASS OF 1976
Central High SchoolClass of 1976
Minneapolis, MN
Shayna's Story
Shayna is from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Shayna is ... well, it's complicated. Shayna's schools include Central High School. Shayna later attended Macalester College. Shayna works(ed) at ReGo Electric Conversions.
Music Shayna likes includes The Pines, Bonnie Raitt, Lady Antebellum. Books Shayna likes include Elizabeth Gilbert, The Healing, The Butter Battle Book. Movies Shayna likes include True Stories, Miss Congeniality, Fertile Ashes. TV shows Shayna likes include The Daily Show, TruthToTell, The Good Wife.
One of Shayna's favorite quotes is:"My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
Mother Jones
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
White Elk
Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty--Gandhi
That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
Sojourner Truth
Politics is about the improvement of
people’s lives, lessening human suffering,
advancing the cause of peace and justice
in our country and in the world.
Paul Wellstone
First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.
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Pastor Niemoller
"The future will belong to those who have passion,
and to those who are willing to make the personal
commitment to make our country better."
Paul Wellstone
Perhaps we can bring the day when children will learn from their earliest days that being fully man and fully woman means to give one's life to the liberation of the brother who suffers. It is up to each one of us. It won't happen unless we decide to use our lives to show the way.
Cesar Chavez
We should never separate the lives we live from the words we speak." Paul Wellstone
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
Kahlil Gibran
I am, was, and always will be a catalyst for change. Shirley Chisholm".
More about Shayna:"To be of use
The people I love the best
jump into work head first
without dallying in the shallows
and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
They seem to become natives of that element,
the black sleek heads of seals
bouncing like half submerged balls.
I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,
who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience,
who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,
who do what has to be done, again and again.
I want to be with people who submerge
in the task, who go into the fields to harvest
and work in a row and pass the bags along,
who stand in the line and haul in their places,
who are not parlor generals and field deserters
but move in a common rhythm
when the food must come in or the fire be put out.
The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
Greek amphoras for wine or oil,
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums
but you know they were made to be used.
The pitcher cries for water to carry
and a person for work that is real.
~ Marge Piercy ~".
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