From the foreword by Philip Dossick:

“There is a sacred thread that ties the prophets of peace together: Mahatma Gandhi. Martin Luther King. Nelson Mandela. Abraham Lincoln. This thread cannot be broken. It will never be broken.
Add to these the names of Franz Boas, the pioneering anthropologist, whose monumental refutation of entrenched racism throughout the sciences forever shattered the myth of white racial superiority.
And the legendary Mr. Jack Wilson, called Wovoka, The Ghost Dance Prophet, by his fellow Native American tribesmen.
I believe they are all Ghost Dance Prophets.
More prophets of peace are soon to appear.
Here are the Ghost Dance Prophets of peace, in their own words.
Timeless words that have forever changed the world.”

PHILIP DOSSICK is the New York Times critically acclaimed writer and director of the motion picture The P.O.W. He has written for television, including the outstanding drama, Transplant, produced by David Susskind for CBS. His most recent books include Aztecs: Epoch Of Social Revolution, Sex And Dreams, Mark Twain In Seattle, Oscar Wilde: Sodomy and Heresy, The Naked Citizen: Notes On Privacy In The Twenty-First Century, Raymond Chowder And Bob Skloot Must Die, The Deposition, Vincent Van Gogh: Madness and Magic, Lenny Bruce: The Myth of Free Speech, and Ghost Dance Prophets: Wovoka, Lincoln, Franz Boas.