Would you have been able to use civil disobedience and non-violence?

I'm not sure that I would be able to use civil disobedience because of the enormous amount of discipline needed to take punishment without retaliation. To see the people protesting beaten, mutilated, and sometimes killed would be very hard. To not retaliate violently to the unjust actions taken against protestors who are not acting violently themselves in the first place would be very difficult. For a child to leave school to march in protest takes an enormous amount of bravery. Protestors were even braver in that they knew that their life could be threatened while they were protesting.