Danilo Dolci Development and Opposition to the Oppression of the MAFIA.

Danilo Dolci (1925-1997), was active in the movement for world citizenship and deeply influenced by the non-violent methods of Mahatma Gandhi. He was often called “The Gandhi of Sicily”.
In 1952 Danilo Dolci went to live in a small, very poor town of western Sicily. The towns-people watched him and wondered why an intelligent and well-educated man should come to live in an area where murder was commonplace; and the poor stole from the poor. The people had tolerated Fascism for 21 years and the oppression of the Mafia even longer.
Danilo Dolci; born near Trieste in the north of Italy; was the son of a railroad official who had worked in Sicily in this youth; and told his family of the poverty and suffering there - a place to be avoided if possible. When the Second World War began; Danilo Dolci was conscripted but refused combatant training and was imprisoned. After the war; he worked with a dynamic priest, Zeno Saltini who had built a community for abandoned children.
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