Both oppressed and oppressors fear freedom, but differently

Evidence

This fear of freedom is also to be found in the oppressors though, obviously, in a different form. The oppressed are afraid to embrace freedom; the oppressors are afraid of losing the “freedom” to oppress. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 179

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fear of woman, not mere subordination, drove legislators to organize her oppression. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 169