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I was referring more to the women's sufferage movement in the USA, led by people such as Susan B. Anthony, when I made my comment.
The UK Suffragettes only turned to violence in 1912 after a decade of more peaceful tactics, the organization itself only forming after almost 40 years of unsuccessful campaigning from 1867 to 1903. As a result of the window shattering and firebombing campaigns many were imprisoned and started a hunger strike in which several died, leading the House of Lords to pass the Cat and Mouse Act of 1913 which sent them home to die there after they sufficiently starved themselves to help absolve the government of wrongdoing. The suffragettes didn't see any results until 1918 when women over 30 and men over 21 were allowed to vote. Equality was only obtained in 1928.
Good on them for sticking it out to the end but the militant portion of their campaign was short lived and impotent.