Yes, I agree. The foundation of social justice, and thus freedom, lies in respect each others’ free will and right to choose courses of action that aren’t harmful to others. A philosophical term for that is “mutual recognition” — valuing each other as full human beings. If you are interested, I wrote a book on this as the key to social justice and opposing injustice: Rethinking Misrecognition and Struggles for Recognition: Critical Theory Beyond Honneth.