Martin Luther King, Jr. would not stand with the dominant project of American sociologists now, however much sociologists would like to own him. He did stand and would stand with the personalist project. Other important personalists that American sociologists may know—and if they do not, they should, if they could possibly do so with an open mind—are Michael Polanyi, Martin Buber, Paul Ricoeur, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Maritain, Karol Wojtyla, Dorothy Day, and many others whose thinking and lives are well worth taking seriously, even if we may not fully embrace everything they said and did.
