I literally just finished this book today which nicely complements your point:
https://lernerbooks.com/shop/show/23047
The police were beating women to death in the late 1800s and early 1900s for demanding the right to vote, so the women (checks notes) kept demanding the right to vote and taught themselves martial arts so they could fight back against the police.
The combination of continued peaceful marches and protests plus property destruction and the threat of violence (e.g. firebombing the home of a politician who betrayed the movement) worked, in the end.
Tiota Sram
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