Which sentence in this excerpt from john lewis's walking with the wind: a memoir of the movement shows that the author was influenced by henry david thoreau? as far as i was concerned, malcolm was not a civil rights leader. malcolm was not part of the movement. the movement had a goal of an integrated society, an interracial democracy, a beloved community. what malcolm x represented were the seeds of something different, something that would eventually creep into the movement itself and split it apart. he was not about integration, not about interracial community, and he was not nonviolent. to his credit, he preached personal independence and responsibility, self-discipline and self-reliance. but he also urged the black man to fight back in self-defense—"by any means necessary," as he famously put it. and i just could not accept that?

Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian, two of his greatest works are: "Resistance to Civil Government" (also known as "Civil Disobedience") and "The Mask of Anarchy". His ideals can be summarized by this statement: “the Government should not have more power than the bestowed by its citizens”.

Henry David Thoreau was even imprisoned for refusing to pay taxes in protest for the Mexican-American War and the slavery.

In the following quotation from the excerpt from "john lewis's walking with the wind" we can see the influence of Thoreau at its best:

"But he also urged the black man to fight back in self-defense—"by any means necessary," as he famously put it. and i just could not accept that?"

the last one- "But he also urged the black man to fight back in self-defense by any means necessary, as he famously put it. and i just could not accept that"

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which statement best expresses the theme of this short story the value of being confused

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