Danilo Dolci was an Italian social activist, sociologist, popular educator and poet. He is best known for his opposition to poverty, social exclusion and the Mafia in Sicily, and is considered to be one of the protagonists of the non-violence movement in Italy. He became known as the "Gandhi of Sicily".
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Danilo Dolci, antimafia activist
Dolci among the fishermen of Trappeto in 1952
Trappeto, 1952. Dolci in a hunger strike for eight days (October 14 to 21), in the home of Mimmo and Giustina, whose child died of hunger
Arrest of Danilo Dolci in February 1956
Bernardo Mattarella and his son Sergio Mattarella, the future president of Italy, in 1963
Danilo Dolci (left) and Giuseppe Impastato (right), the antimafia activist who was killed in 1978Awards 3
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About this person
Country
ItalyCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1924 to 1997 · aged 73
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