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Which line from "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau may have influenced John Lewis's beliefs?

A. I think sometimes, Why, this people mean well; they are only ignorant; they would do better if they knew how: why give your neighbors this pain to treat you as they are not inclined to?

B. It was formerly the custom in our village, when a poor debtor came out of jail, for his acquaintances to salute him, looking through their fingers, which were crossed to represent the grating of a jail window, "How do ye do?"

C. I have never declined paying the highway tax, because I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject; and as for supporting schools, I am doing my part to educate my fellow-countrymen now.

D. If others pay the tax which is demanded of me, from a sympathy with the State, they do but what they have already done in their own case, or rather they abet injustice to a greater extent than the State requires.

E. I asked him in my turn how he came there, presuming him to be an honest man, of course; and, as the world goes, I believe he was.

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D

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The correct option is B

Civil disobedience is the title of a conference written by Henry David Thoreau that was published in 1848. In this paper Thoreau explains the basic principles of civil disobedience that he put into practice: in the summer of 1846 he refused to pay his taxes so he was arrested and locked up in Concord prison. He justified himself by explaining that he refused to collaborate with a state that maintained the slavery regime and undertook unjustified wars, in that specific case against Mexico.

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