Caitanya Mahāprabhu personally started civil disobedience. You know this story: The Kazi at that time, a Muhammadan magistrate, he issued order not to perform kīrtana. But Caitanya Mahāprabhu said: "No. This order cannot be executed." So He organized one lakh of people to join in the sankīrtana movement, and all of them went to the house of Kazi. And the Kazi was afraid that the public opinion is against him, so there was some compromise. Compromise means it was victory for Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Kazi declared that, "I shall never obstruct sankīrtana movement."
So as Caitanya Mahāprabhu did, we can follow. We are not doing anything harm to the people; we are actually giving the, I mean to say, highest benediction to the human life. But there are always atheistic class of men. Even Lord Jesus Christ was crucified. The only fault was that he was preaching God consciousness. So these class of men, you will find always they are existing. There was Kaṁsa. During Kṛṣṇa's time, there was Kaṁsa. There was Hiraṇyakaśipu, but then . . . Rāvaṇa.
All of them became vanquished. Nobody can check the progress of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Simply we have to remain very serious and sincere. There is no . . . ahaituky apratihatā (SB 1.2.6). It is apratihatā. Pratihatā means being checked. So this bhakti-mārga cannot be checked by any material impediments. It cannot be checked. Simply we have to become very serious and sincere.