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1. Analyze one statement that you agree with and explain why. Include the statement/quotation in your response. (2 Points) 2. Analyze one statement that surprised you or that you want to challenge or disagree with and explain why. Include the statement/quotation in your response! (2 Points) Again, analyze means to examine methodically and in detail the structure of something. especially information, typically for purposes of explanation and interpretation. 50, in other words, first explain the quotation's meaning, and then respond to the quotation you have chosen with your wit, wisdom and understanding. Since Thoreau was seemingly a master of wit and wisdom, please match his writing with your own depth of explanation. Excerpt from "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey ther, 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 a 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 works. Why is it not more apt to anticipate and provide for reform? Why does it not cherish its wise minority? Why does it cry and resist before it is hurt?... If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth. -certainly the machine will wear out. It the injustice has a spring. or a pulley, or a rope, or a crank, exclusively for itself, then perhaps you may consider whether the remedy will not be worse than the evil; but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see. at any rate. that I do not lend myself in the wrong which I condemn. As for adopting the ways which the State has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such ways. They take too much time, and a man's life will be gone. I have other affairs to allend to. I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it. be it good or bad. A man has not everything to do, but something; and because he cannot do everything, it is not necessary that he should do something wrong