What does it take to be a good revolutionary?

So, I was looking around on wikipedia and I noticed that the definition of revolutionary is: a person who demands fundamental change in power or organizational structures, constitutional change. a person who demands it NOW.

By that definition, and looking at all the out of control drug laws and military spending and what have you, I guess most of us are revolutionaries, but none of us are any good at it. why is that?

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You're the only one who cares.

Where did this topic jump off the rails?  Backpedaling to an someone's earlier post:
It's called civil disobedience, and it's the best way to get the civilians on your side. The establishment will irritate you to try and make you turn violent, because once they've got you violent,then they know how to handle you.
Civil disobedience is only good if the government actually respects its people.  That's a major point of difference between the Civil Rights movement, no matter how flawed the responding execution was, and Syria.