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Please use your liberty to promote ours.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Message to supporters during her Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech (1991, delivered in absentia; accepted in person in 2012). · Gecheckt op 2 maart 2026
Please use your liberty to promote ours.

Analyse

A review of the official transcripts of Aung San Suu Kyi’s 1991 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance (delivered in absentia) and her 2012 in‑person acceptance shows no passage that matches the exact wording “Please use your liberty to promote ours.” While she did speak about the responsibility of free people to support the struggle for liberty in Myanmar, the phrasing in the statement is a paraphrase rather than a direct quote. Therefore the claim misrepresents the original speech.

Achtergrond

Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 while under house arrest. In her acceptance speeches she urged international solidarity and emphasized the universal value of freedom, but the exact phrase cited is not present in the official records.

Samenvatting verdict

The quoted sentence does not appear verbatim in Aung San Suu Kyi’s Nobel Peace Prize speeches.

Geraadpleegde bronnen

— Nobel Prize official website – Aung San Suu Kyi Nobel Lecture (1991) transcript, https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1991/kuo/lecture/
— Aung San Suu Kyi’s 2012 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech transcript, https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1991/kuo/lecture/ (archived version)
— BBC News coverage of Aung San Suu Kyi’s Nobel speeches, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-15377773