From The State:
Nobody can remember seeing Matthew Perry angry. Determined? Always. Fearless? No question. Forceful and firm? Without a doubt. Kind, compassionate and respectful? Without fail. But never angry. Never bitter. Perry's remarkable temperament - and unmatched legal skills - were essential to the relatively peaceful progress of civil rights in South Carolina during the turbulent 1960s and beyond. While the state endured pain and tragedy in those days, South Carolina advanced with "far less turmoil than her neighbors," Chief U.S. District Judge Joseph F. Anderson Jr. wrote in a 2004 tribute to Perry.
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