Question 0975:

"Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.…Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence...If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood."

These sentiments from Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Civil Disobedience” profoundly influenced which pair below?

(A)   Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas
(B)   Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman
(C)   John C. Calhoun and Jefferson Davis
(D)   Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
(E)   W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington

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Explanation:

Thoreau refused to pay his taxes in Concord, Massachusetts because of his opposition to the Mexican-American War, inspiring America's most famous single night in jail.  Gandhi and King utilized Thoreau's ideas in crafting their successful campaigns of civil disobedience by opposing political authority and oppression in India and the southern U.S. in the 20th Century.

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