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Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of a personal god, and it gave me a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Personalism's Insistence That Only Personality-finite And Infinite-is

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of a personal god, and it gave me a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality.
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