Civil Disobedience

I though that Thoreau was trying to make strong points i his essay about criticizing us as people and how sometimes we speak but don't act.  The paragraph that i focused on was paragraph ten and i thought that he wasn't seeing people actually step up for change and that they were against all these specific topics and things going on in the world but they would never act on them they would sit around and wait for one person to act on it and rely on them and then it would never end up happening.  His whole essay is pretty much based around his criticism of the people and the government and how the government can be unjust but the people just go along with it.  he wants them to stand up and no go along with it just because i is the government and people don't think they can be wrong but he thinks they can be and no one will stop them from doing unjust things in the country.   He also claims that the government does many things don't do much for the country and that they are pointless. He does say that the government will not be needed someday in the future at all.  He also believe that we think the government is doing much better than it really is and give it was more credit than it deserves to get.  Thoreau mentions that not everyone is going to wipe clean every bad thing that everyone else does but if we do things right by ourselves than we won't have to worry about others because they should be doing right by them also.