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Danilo Dolci: Non-Violence in Italy
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WHEN I arrived in Sicily last Spring, my hostess told me, with some excitement, that Danilo Dolci, not long back from England himself, where he had been toured and televised, was holding an international conference at Palma de Montechiaro in the west of the island on the theme of the backward areas and depressed people of Sicily. Dolci is the young artist-architect, now thirty-six, turned saintly reformer, the exponent of the philosophy of non-violence, who has dedicated himself to the purpose of reclaiming Sicily and the Sicilians. I have been told by people who have worked with him closely that Dolci is the “perfectly ordinary man.” What they mean is that he is not an abstract missionary but that he is trying to deal with the everyday problems of an actual group of people.
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