Tim Soutphommasane Quotes

#1. We have a natural constant craving for leadership. Democracy is always a fragile and imperfect achievement. Yet a distinct feeling of malaise in our political culture lingers. There is something missing from our public debates.

Tim Soutphommasane

#2. We know that a large majority of the Australian society is extremely comfortable with a multicultural society, that we accept that living in a democracy means having a freedom to practise your religion within the limits of the law.

Tim Soutphommasane

#3. People have a right to protest peacefully, but there's absolutely no excuse for anyone to be conducting a campaign of intimidation that may be directed at anyone because of their religion or because of their background.

Tim Soutphommasane

#4. People should not be responding to bigoted ugliness with any ugliness of their own.

Tim Soutphommasane

#5. No-one wants to see violence of any kind on our streets, certainly not any violence that's justified by extreme nationalist ideas or that targets people because of their religion.

Tim Soutphommasane

#6. Anti-Muslim protests represent a fringe of our society that's seeking to promote hatred and division.

Tim Soutphommasane

#7. You can protest, you can protest peacefully, but keep things civil.

Tim Soutphommasane

#8. If anyone has engaged unlawful activity, they should be held to account with the full force of the law.

Tim Soutphommasane