Jailing you, torturing you, and killing you come easily for the powers you are confronting. If your commitment to this confrontation is less than their willingness to do what comes easily for them, you may as well not begin.
There is no such thing as safe revolution, or legal revolution.
If there is a limit beyond which you are not prepared to go to fight power, you should know that power will push you to that point very quickly, because it is the point at which their security begins.