The NAACP delegation wanted the United Nations to endorse racial equality and to bring an end to the colonial era.

Nonetheless, while most Americans genuinely endorse equality in principle, they seem unable to embrace the political means necessary to achieve it.

The Pope endorsed "real equality" between the sexes, condemned sexual violence and expressed admiration for women who had struggled for their rights.

Several resolutions were passed endorsing the abolition of slavery, legal equality regardless of color or race, and black manhood suffrage.

The pope has endorsed sexual equality in the workplace and in society, but there is no doubt that he subscribes to a Christian version of difference feminism.

Accordingly, people who endorse equality of opportunity may like the idea of it in principle, yet at the same time they would be unwilling to take the extreme steps or "titanic interventions" necessary to achieve real intergenerational equality.

It endorsed equality under the law and a country of citizens making their own decisions on how to live their lives, albeit with the guidance of an educational curriculum.

The early history of attitudes towards gender in the Religious Society of Friends (aka Quakers) is particularly notable for providing for one of the largest and most equitable roles for women in the Christian tradition at the time, despite not endorsing universal equality until much later.