The following passage is from the novel To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee. It is
spoken by the character Atticus, who is defending an innocent African American man in
the 1930s, to his son.
I wanted you to see what real courage is. . . . It's when you know you're licked before you
begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Which is a reasonable conclusion that can be drawn from the details in the passage?