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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 consultant to multiple organizations and individuals. Voice trainer to artists including, Celine Dion, Faith Hill, Liza Minnelli, Whitney Houston and Stevie Wonder among many others. The Destination Peace Prize is named for Professor Riley.
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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, co-author of Spiral Dynamics and theorist, the late Dr. Beck served alongside Nelson Mandela on the creation of deep reconciliation strategies in the post-apartheid South Africa. He was a mentor and inspiration to our founder.
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"Every such great awakening in our history has been signaled and sparked by the arts, the soul, talk and thought. Those memorable events and experiences are forever an integral part of who we are, what we remember as sacred and what we hold dear.
No more prizes for forecasting the rain, only prizes for building the ark."
"There are lots of people who want to be the change that the world needs to have. While they are trying to do it... Destination Peace is doing the change that needs to be done. Being it, feeling it, is fine. We have had all kinds of Peace Conferences. What we haven't had is the ability, the very sensitive ability to design systems and structures that naturally produce the peace because 1. they are effective number, 2. they are long lasting and number 3, they create because of who and what they are, new thinking that others have not had. So the destination peace is based on that assumption, not just to BE the change... but to DO the change."
Dr. Don Beck
December 10, 2017
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, acts as a bridge linking government, civil society organizations, the private sector, universities and the United Nations in enhancing new ways of viewing an integrated society for all ages.
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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 United Nations 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!"
