As Gandhi said, make the injustice visible... The more peaceful yet uncooperative the masses are the more the violent are shown to be villains.

"[A] democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR (1938)