Article 15 talks about, prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth.
(i) The state shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex place of birth or any of them.
(ii) No citizen shall, on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them, be subject to any disability, liability, restriction or condition with regard to
(a) access to shops public restaurants, hotels and places of public entertainment.
(b) the use of wells, tanks, bathing ghats, roads and places of public resort maintained wholly or partly out of state funds or dedicated to the use of general public.

Civil Rights Movement is a movement started in USA in late 1950s to push for equal rights for African- Americans. Rosa Parks was an African-American woman who refused to give up her seat in a bus to a white man. Her refusal started a huge agitation against the unequal ways in which African- Americans were treated and this came to be known as Civil Rights Movement.
The Civil Rights Act 1964, prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, religion or national origin. It also stated that all schools would be open to African-Americans and they would no longer have to attend separate schools.

One of the significant reasons for continuance of discrimination is that attitudes change very slowly. Even though persons are aware that discrimination is against the law, they continue to treat people unequally on the basis of their caste, religion, disability, economic status and sex.
It is only when people begin to believe that no one is inferior and that every person deserves to be treated with dignity that attitude will change. Establishing equality in a democratic society is a continuous struggle and it is required for individuals and various communities to come together to remove inequality.

Kanta is a domestic worker and lives in a slum which has a drain behind it. Her daughter is sick but she cannot take the day off from work because she has to borrow money from her employer to take her daughter to the doctor. Her job tires her out and she ends her day by again standing in a long line in front of the government hospital. But this line is unlike the one in the morning because most of the people standing in it were poor.

The Civil Right Act was passed in 1 'The act prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, religion or national origin. It also stated that African- American children would no longer have to attend separate schools, specially set up for them. Infact, all the schools would be open for them. However, a majority of African-American continue to be among the poorest in the country

Issues of Equality in Other Democracies
(i) India is not the only democratic country in which there is inequality and in which the struggle for equality continues to exist.
(ii) In most democratic countries around the world, the issue of equality continues to be the key issue around which communities struggle. In USA the African-American brought as skives from Africa continue to be largely unequal. This is despite a movement in the late 1950s to push for equal rights for African-American. Prior to this, African-American were treated extremely unequally in the United States. They were denied equality through law.

Rosa Parks was an African-American woman. She was tired and refused to give her scat on a bus to a white man, on December 1, 1955. Her refusal that day started a huge agitation against the unequal ways in which African-American were treated. This came, later on to be known as the Civil Rights Movements, The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, religion or national origin. It also stated that all schools would be open to African-American children and that they would no longer have to attend separate schools specially set up for them. Despite this, a majority of African- Americans continue to be among the poorest in the country.

When they both were treated unequally, their dignity was violated and they felt humiliated. (i)Omprakash Valmiki's schoolmates and teachers badly hurt his dignity, by making him sweep the school, because of his caste. He felt that he was less than equal to all other students in the school. (ii) Valmiki's father felt angry by this unequal treatment. He confronted the teachers.
(iii)The Ansari's dignity was also hurt when people refused to lease their apartments to them.
(iv) Their dignity was also violated, when the property dealer suggested them to change their name.
(v) They both did not deserved to be treated like this. They deserve the same respect and dignity as others.