What this expression means is that with a little bit of anything something bigger can come from it. It may be something you desired or something that you have an intense hatred for but all in all anything small can become something bigger and better.
Although this is a subjective question, the best option for probably be "D like the sun and the interlopers" in terms of which two stories seem to have similar general themes.
it became more prominent because the black power movement technically started the peaceful civil rights movement. Americans noticed that it wasn’t just the African Americans that needed independence, but other ethnicities (bringing peace to all)