The correct answer is “it was formerly the custom in our village when a poor debtor came out of jail, for his acquaintances to salute him, looking through their fingers which were crossed to represent the granting of a jail window, “How do ye do?”
The line from “Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau that may have influenced John Lewis beliefs is: “it was formerly the custom in our village when a poor debtor came out of jail, for his acquaintances to salute him, looking through their fingers which were crossed to represent the granting of a jail window, “How do ye do?”
Henry D. Thoreau wrote “Resistance to Civil Government (Civil DIsobedience)” in 1949. He asked people to never allow a bad government to influence their lives. John Lewis is a civil rights activist and a former Congressman. He received inspiration form Thoreau ideas.