when it comes to the us i always think about MLK. his modern "public image" has nothing to do with what he actually stood for.

in my country these figures are often buried and forgotten about or treated like extremists.

Suffragettes in Great Britain and Ireland orchestrated a bombing and arson campaign between the years 1912 and 1914. The campaign was instigated by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), and was a part of their wider campaign for women's suffrage. The campaign, led by key WSPU figures such as Emmeline Pankhurst, targeted infrastructure, government, churches and the general public, and saw the use of improvised explosive devices, arson, letter bombs, assassination attempts and other forms of direct action and violence.

If this is civil then maybe Palestine Action could up their game a bit

Bhagat Singh, the person in my profile picture is a pristine example, fully whitewashed by the fascists to the point of being constantly plastered on walls, propaganda posters, government websites, celebrations as one of the most well known and prominent nationalist freedom fighter that died for our nation, whereas if he were alive today, his Marxism Leninism and revolutionary socialist cause would get him branded an anti national urban naxal and arrested for terrorism.