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Acknowledgements
With deep gratitude to the artists, leaders, and friends who have lent their voices to Destination Peace. Open each card to read their message.
Peter Yarrow
The late legendary singer-songwriter and member of Peter, Paul and Mary; political activist and treasured Peace Ambassador with Destination Peace.
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"If we want to be a movement, we've got to sing like a movement. This music is shared to find the vehicle for the unanimity we need to be in each other's hearts and prevail, so that the world can be repaired. We need more people like Manny; we have to do this in each and every generation."
Naila Chowdhury
Co-Founder, Pillars 4 Dignity; Co-Founder, Alliance 4 Empowerment; Founder and Chairman, Women4Empowerment; Board of Director for Destination Peace.
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"Love and compassion are the reasons for being. When we choose wisely and if we can unite our souls like the seven colors of the spectrum, true harmony awaits us at the end of the rainbow."
Professor William Riley
Singer, stage director, minister of music, and voice trainer to artists including Celine Dion, Faith Hill, Liza Minnelli, Whitney Houston and Stevie Wonder. The Destination Peace Prize is named for Pr
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"Music changes the listener. People all have opinions; this is good, that is bad, this is right, that is wrong. How can we make ourselves better? How can we make the world better? Manny works to bring out the best in each person, and Manny's music is that little extra ingredient."
Tony Prendatt
5x Grammy Nominee and 3x Grammy Recipient (2 for Album of the Year).
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"In the early stages of developing Destination Peace into an international agenda, Manny has been heavily involved with the United Nations and its diplomatic community. He has already blessed countries around the world with his spiritual leadership and his message through song."
Dr. Don Beck
Teacher, geopolitical advisor, evolutionary psychologist, and co-author of Spiral Dynamics. Served alongside Nelson Mandela on reconciliation strategies in post-apartheid South Africa; a mentor and in
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"There are lots of people who want to be the change the world needs. While they are trying, Destination Peace is doing the change that needs to be done, designing systems and structures that naturally produce peace. Not just to BE the change, but to DO the change."
John Kiehl
Co-Founder and Co-Owner of multiple Grammy/Oscar-winning Soundtrack Studios in New York and Boston, Destination Peace Ambassador, and Co-Host of the CONSTRUCT think tank.
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"Join us on our journey to Destination Peace. We need thinkers, planners, dreamers, visionaries, provocateurs, sceptics, gurus, coaches, mentors, disciples, fans, street teams, publicists, tweets and beats. All we ask is your undying desire to make a better world."
Rev. Dr. Alvin C. Hathaway, Sr.
Senior Pastor Emeritus, Union Baptist Church in Baltimore; President and CEO of Beloved Community Services and Board of Director for Destination Peace.
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"In music each note is distinctive, but in composition a masterpiece is created. That's how The Universe works, composing a masterpiece from our differences."
Professor Dianne Davis
Founder and President of the International Council for Caring Communities (ICCC), linking government, civil society, the private sector, universities and the United Nations toward an integrated societ
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"Song is known to be a most effective connector. It is a positive tool to enhance the implementation of the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals, foster universal peace building, and stimulate new mindsets for caring communities."
Roma Downey
Legendary actress, producer, author, Order of the British Empire recipient, multiple Emmy Award Nominee, and Destination Peace Ambassador.
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"If we could all only see the face of God in everything and everyone, all the time, surely the world would be a kinder place."
Fr. Albert Scharbach
Pastor of Mount Calvary Catholic Church in Baltimore, Maryland, and a Board of Director for Destination Peace.
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"One of the most moving experiences I've had through music was hearing Manny cantor a psalm in Hebrew. I could share in the emotion and unite my heart in prayer. Now Manny has created a prayer language from the many cultures of the world, enabling each of us to pray at our own place of understanding. May we lift up our hearts to the God of all creation!"
