Most revolutions are carried through by a small portion of the population; The American Revoution had about 150,000 to 200,000 out of 4,500,000 million; The French Revolution about 250,000 revolutionaries out of a population estimated at 35,000,000; and in The Russian Revolution Lenin had about 250,000 supporters out of a total population of 100,000,000.
That is a lot of people.