To all the people who complain about the government, their situation or living conditions I have only one question to ask you?

What are you doing to make a difference?

I am not an American but I live here – can I make a difference? After all I can’t even legally sign a petition you know. But some part of me believes I can and it does not matter that I am an immigrant. I read a wake up call over on Shakespeare’s Sister’s blog. It is truly worth a read, especially to those who don’t care about the direction this country is taking at all.

To borrow my one of my favorite quotes she used in her blog:

“In Germany, the Nazis first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.” — Martin Niemoller, a Lutheran pastor in Berlin, arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Dachau concentration camp in 1938; the Allied forces freed him seven years later.

I feel I should be doing more.