I think that, for most of us, a sense of community is of equal importance.
Yes, this is what I was thinking too. The vocabulary I was thinking about it in is a sense of belonging. In societies where freedom is not anywhere near as important as the various kinds of obligations or duties people are thought to have, what makes the obligations acceptable is a sense of belonging that follows from them. In our own society, where freedom is often said to be the highest good, it's a qualified freedom insofar as we still want to identify with certain people (families, friends), certain groups (workplace, neighborhood, country), certain sets of common values (different conceptions of national ideals)--and in fact freedom is only possible if it is a value held in common, since we must agree to acknowledge one another's freedom in the first place. So, on the whole, I do think people want to have a sense of belonging to something larger than themselves, which gives their lives meaning, more than freedom. That's not at all to say that freedom is not important; it's profoundly important, and all those who prize it are right to do so and all those who defend it for the rest of us ought to have our enduring gratitude. But I do think, as far as basic human aspirations go, a sense of belonging comes first, because, one way or another, we need one another even to survive and flourish.