"With deepest veneration and fellow feeling, I clasp your hand on the occasion of your eightieth birthday. I know of no other person who combines such profound intellectual gifts with such self-renunciation while finding the whole meaning of his life in quiet service to the community. We -- all of us -- thank you not only for what you have accomplished and brought about, but also because we feel happy that such a man should exist at all in this time of ours, which is so lacking in genuine personalities. With reverent greetings...."
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Activists from the United StatesCivil rights activistsJustices of the Supreme Court of the United StatesFree speech activistsPeople from Louisville
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Dukas and Hoffman comment: "the handwritten original is among the Brandeis papers at the Law School of the University of Louisville."
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Louis Brandeis
Louis Dembitz Brandeis (November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an American litigator, Supreme Court Justice, advocate of privacy, and developer of the Brandeis brief.
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