We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.

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We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it. is a poem published in the Washington Post on November 2, 1963, by Thurgood Marshall, who at that time was chief counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

While he was writing the poem, Marshall's wife, Virginia Durr, was dying of leukemia. The poem is about how he realized that his wife was dying and what he felt as she died. He wrote it shortly after she died, with an eye toward how he would write it if she were still alive.

Source: Requiem

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