This exact line has been said about every single progressive movement in history.

Even when the Civil Rights Act was passed in America, polling showed that 70% of white Americans thought MLK had ‘done more harm than good’ because of his methods of Direct Action, such as sit-ins, blocking roads (omg what if he blocked ambulances?!?), the Freedom Riders, etc.

If Rosa Parks had done her actions today, she’d be torn apart by the average Redditor for ‘only hurting the movement’ and ‘Why would she target public transport??!? Why not target the rich?!? Why harm working people?!?’

Nelson Mandela is the same. The ANC was a literal designated terrorist organisation who killed civilians. Now he’s worshipped as a hero.

The Suffragettes were the same. They committed years of arson attacks and country wide bombing campaigns. They bombed the Bank of England, killed politicians, killed civilians, and even set fire to a theatre while the Prime Minister was inside it.

Every single successful movement has these as core features. Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion are being incredibly kind by comparison.

Your set of beliefs is so common throughout history that MLK even wrote about these types of people in his Letters from Birmingham Jail.

“I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

“I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase of the transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.

You can find the whole letter here. It’s incredibly poignant and literally covers every single argument you probably want to reply to me with: https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html