"There were quite a few slaveowners who wanted him dead, the dirty rabblerousing terrorist mouthpiece.

Of course, they didn't call it terrorism then."

But what you are saying indicates to me that you are missing something.
Example from above link:
"We should be thinking and talking about what we do much more carefully. For example, when we sat down and blockaded the entrance to the New York State Senate last year in Albany, we were very clear about what we were doing. We did not say we were there to get arrested. We said we had a set of demands and that if Ralph Marino (the Senate Majority Leader) and Governor Cuomo would agree to our demands, we would go home because we were there to pursue a specific set of demands, those demands were picked up and publicized by the media covering the arrests. That helped to educate people, embarrassed Cuomo and Marino, and contributed to the building of our movement and the achievement of change. Other ACT UP members who were in Albany that same day apparently told a local newspaper reporter that they were "going to get arrested. "That reporter then wrote a column that described people who were intent on getting arrested, as if getting arrested were an end in itself. There was no mention in this column of the specific issues that drove people to commit civil disobedience."

Now, I think you could understand what civil disobeyance was if you would spend the time to understand it. If you do take the time you will be able to tell the difference between when it done is well and when some people commiting crimes because they feel upset about something and want to indulge themselves in criminal pranks (or worse).
If civil disobeyance is done poorly; it's possible to confuse it with simple criminal behavior. It's also possible that well organized groups can be disrupted by external and/or internal forces thereby making the civil disobeyance appear to "mostly" about criminal acts. There is also in most cases a dependence on press doing their job fairly well. The main thing is the message. And most importantly, one will need to persevere- it's not about expecting "quick results".