I don't think there is another way to say we rose up.
Answer:
No. Race doesn't define your beauty. Your personality and actions do. And if people tell you that, they're racist, which is not okay at all. You're beautful
Explanation:
That is an idiom. It means that you can help someone do something (lead them), but you can't make them do it.
In this situation, credited means "to pay respect to".
Knowing this, the sentence "Lily's parents credited her for her efforts at finding a summer job" can be changed to "Lily's parents [paid respect to] her for her efforts at finding a summer job" and the sentence still makes sense.
What other sentence can you replace the word credited with the phrase "paid respect to" and it will still make sense?