Why was it important to say that “all men” were “created equal”? choose the best answer. to show that enslaved people had the same rights as colonists to show that the king was not any better than the colonists to show that the colonists were the same as the citizens of britain

“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