Chandra on the Constitution

"When a lot of non-Malay intelligentsia, activists, talk about the Constitution, they begin by saying the Constitution starts with freedom of religion, and it's true. But they fail to see that there are other dimensions to the Constitution... And there is one very important dimension of that equilibrium we very often ignore - our Constitution is cognisant of the fact that this nation we know today as Malaysia has a Malay history... The inclusion of the article on the special position of the Malays in the Constitution was not simply because of the socio-economic condition of the Malay community in 1957, but because it is the community that is linked to that history."

Quoted from an interview with Chandra Muzaffar by Off The Edge, May 2007 issue 29.