What does the author's use of the word champion in the phrase champion of civil rights suggest to the reader? that the author holds a very high opinion of Thurgood Marshall that the author does not have an opinion of Thurgood Marshall that the author holds an unbiased opinion of Thurgood Marshall that the author wishes to omit his opinion of Thurgood Marshall

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is