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"Unjust laws exist;shall we be content to obey them,or shall we endeavor to amend them,and obey them until we have succeeded,or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally,under such government as this,think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them.They think that,if they should resist,the remedy would be worse than the evil.But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil.It makes it worse...Why does it not cherish its wise majority? Why does it cry and resist before it is hurt? …"
Henry David Thoreau,"Civil Disobedience," 1848
-Thoreau's beliefs,as expressed in the excerpt,would have the greatest impact on which of the following reformers?

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Thoreau's ideas of civil disobedience and resisting unjust laws had a significant impact on African-American civil rights activists such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks who utilized his philosophy in their own activism. Thoreau's writing encouraged nonviolent resistance and standing up against oppressive laws, which influenced the tactics that civil rights activists employed during the Civil Rights Movement.

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