Mahatma Gandhi

Developed and first tested satyagraha — organized, disciplined civil disobedience against unjust law — in response to local grievances in South Africa, years before applying the same method at national scale in India.

Between 1920 and 1942, led three nationwide campaigns of organized civil disobedience against British rule — the Non-Cooperation Movement, the Salt Satyagraha (including the 1930 Salt March), and the Quit India Movement — each built around sustained, coordinated mass nonviolent resistance rather than armed struggle, and each met with mass arrests, including his own repeated imprisonment. He led these campaigns as one senior figure within a broader Indian National Congress and independence movement that included other leaders and regional campaigns already under way before his involvement; Britain granted India's independence in August 1947, months after his final imprisonment during Quit India, with the country partitioned into India and Pakistan.

In 1930, personally organized and led the Salt March — a 24-day, 240-mile march in deliberate defiance of British law — a specific, self-initiated act of civil disobedience.

This tracks with the profile's high proactive_agency score, documented directly: a specific, planned act of civil disobedience he conceived and led himself, not a response to someone else's initiative. Proactive Agency