Some people's overweening fixation on passive, nonviolent resistance is driven more by a white liberal desire to not be disruptive, because disruption is seen as worse than injustice in many cases, even though historically, nonviolent resistance was only effective because it was disruptive, not passive.
This idea that symbolic gestures and speeches can accomplish everything is due to a whitewashed history of civil rights movements past, which were seen as anything but polite at the time.
Most people need to file away Dr King's "I have a dream" speech and focus on his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" instead.
He believed in 100% non-violence, but he was the opposite of passive. He was aggressively, even militantly non-violent.
https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
Dr King's intent was to provoke the fascists' violence to the surface for all the disengaged "good people" to witness.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/televisions-civil-rights-revolution/554639/
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