CILs in Kansas and Pennsylvania have been rightly honored for their liberation of people from the incarceration of nursing homes. Steve Gold, a Pennsylvania attorney, has received awards from disability organizations for his role in liberating someone from a nursing home in a way that changed Pennsylvania's laws to require community integration. Actions of people in these two states have led to changes in the national political scene as well. There are many ways to change communities. Whether change is accomplished by force of law or other means is irrelevant.
Different tactics work in different places at different times.
What does matter is the result. I think this is what Kafka was saying in his important article. Sticking to our convictions is meaningless if it does not get us desired goals. That objective has not changed. What has changed is our society.