"If they can't get their way through rational persuasion, they don't get to have their way at all. That's how democracy works." Is that the case for other acti

"If they can't get their way through rational persuasion, they don't get to have their way at all. That's how democracy works." Is that the case for other activist groups in the past? I was aware that other activist groups have been disruptive also (anti-war protests during vietnam, throwing literal ashes of the dead onto white house grounds during the AIDS crisis, the civil rights movement had plenty of nonviolent and violent protests...)