What is "uplifting"

Usage examples of "uplifting".

So far from this, there are hundreds of other Negroes who are as scholarly, as prominent and as active in the work of uplifting their race as the one hundred herein given.

But as has been stated in the previous paragraph the pulpit has ever sought to uplift man on every line where his uplifting meant his highest good.

Negro into separate and distinctly racial societies for the conduct of religious worship and church government the Negro pulpit did a work which has given the race greater prestige and more clearly demonstrated its capabilities and possibilities than any other work which has been done by or for the race toward uplifting it.

United States Minister to the Republic of Liberia, each and all have contributed much to the uplifting of the race in the political sphere.

Negro pulpit stands out in bold prominence as the chief agency in the work of uplifting the race.

I know no single agency which is accomplishing so much in the task of uplifting the race as the Negro pulpit.

Negro pulpit is uplifting the race is to be seen in the gradual but certain and permanent reformation taking place in the social and moral life of the race.

These beautiful edifices exert a refining and uplifting influence upon the lives of men.

Negro race, in my opinion the solution of that problem will come only by following the rule of action applied to the uplifting and development of others.

The progress of the race means much to the Negro woman, and as she goes forth adding her best energies to the uplifting of her people the work in itself will react upon her, and from a passive individual she will be a more alert and useful factor in the regeneration of her race and to the social system at large.

Too much credit cannot be given the religious guides of the race for the interest and support inspired by them in this, as in all uplifting services toward their people, yet to the continuation of this devotion and the removal of their zeal must the eyes of the masses be directed until the royal harvest of a more prolific race-loyalty be seen and gathered on every hand.

But those who transgress the general rule of uplifting are the exceptions.

Is it conceivable that the combined work of this class of our young people has accomplished nothing in the moral uplifting of the race?

Negro teacher is doing in the matter of uplifting his race: he is giving to it literary training, teaching it to skillfully use the hand, and encouraging it to accumulate property.

And yet it may be pardonable arrogance on our part to say that at this first milestone in our educational career we pause here long enough to take an inventory of what the Negro teacher has done and is still doing in the matter of uplifting his people.