The phrase "activist not only" is not correct as it is incomplete and lacks the necessary continuation to form a proper expression in English.
It can be used in a context where you want to emphasize that someone is an activist and also possesses additional qualities or roles, but it needs to be followed by "but also" and another clause.
Example: "She is an activist not only for environmental issues but also for social justice."
Alternatives: "activist as well as" or "activist in addition to".
She has been singularly effective as a parent activist, not only in spurring research into a cure for the disease but in working with doctors and drug companies to improve care.
(Emanuel Karr, a British-born activist, not only put a down payment on the house on East 84th Street, Mr. McDonald said, but when he died a few years ago, he left a bit of money that helped with the Bay Shore purchase).
KASHINK: I'm an activist, not only as an artist but also as a person.
Human rights activists not only encouraged such an appeal but also asked for widespread protests around the world.
We're political activists, not only for causes that affect young people but in any campaign you care to name.
In the face of H.I.V., activists not only organized care for the sick and dying but also, with groups like Gay Men's Health Crisis and Act Up, changed the way the drug-approval process works for everybody.
She is one of the most riveting activists, not only in Latino history, but also in our nation's history.
8 to the violence faced by anti-segregation activists, not only does Oaks diminish the bravery and sacrifice of those willing to risk bodily harm so that America could come closer it's the notion of Jeffersonian democracy, he is unwittingly making another historical comparison.
"There's an armory and food storage," the activist said, "not only for the Free Syrian Army but for all Ghouta," a larger suburban area nearby.
Howard K. Schachman, an influential biochemist who became a political and scientific activist, challenging not only California's loyalty oath and its mandatory retirement rules but also the way fraud is dealt with in science, died Friday, Aug. 5, from complications of pneumonia at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland.
"Canadian Pacific was a sea change," said Peter Buzzi, co-head of M&A at RBC. "Activism wasn't really on the radar until then but this showed that an activist could not only come in to a big blue chip company, it could also get shareholder support". CP's soaring share price also showed Canadian long-term investors that backing activism could pay off.
