Question

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?
a. As far as i was concerned, Malcolm was not a civil rights leader
b. What Malcolm X represented were the seeds of something different, something that would eventually creep into the movement itself and split it apart.
c. To his credit, he preached personal independence and responsibility, self-discipline and self-reliance
d. But he also urged the black man to fight back in self-defense---"by any means necessary," as he famously put it. And i could not accept that.

Answer 1

It was letter d.  Thoreau was a pacifist but he also advocated the use of force when necessary.  Thoreau believed that there comes a time that you have to use aggressive means to achieve change against an unjust system although Lewis was against violence particularly that of Malcolm X exultations, this call of violence is similar to Thoreau.

Answer 2

Im still not convinced its D, I would say it is C, Thoreau was a guy who did not like following some orders of the law and he belived in "CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE" a famous story he wrote about breaking the law when necessary. Answer C talks about INDEPENDENCE, RESPONSIBILITY, SELF-DISCIPLINE, and SELF-RELIANCE.