Unless you’re physically disabled the choice is always yours it’s a question of commitment:

-You vote

-You go to a protest

-You join a union

-You join a strike

-You risk your livelihood through speech

-You join a direct action

-You risk your life

Most people never get past commitment level 0 which is doing nothing including voting

Then throw their hands up that nothing changes claiming they have no ability to do anything

There are thousands of examples to the opposite and it boggles my mind how people can think they aren’t capable

This firebombing falls under "direct action" for anyone wondering. This is what the phrase "direct action" refers to.

I would swap strikes and speeches in your ordering. Strikers have been brutalized by the government and definitely lost their jobs, but public speakers mostly just risk losing their jobs.