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“I consider this Prize, not as an award to me personally, but rather as one of the greatest conquests in the struggle for peace, for human rights and for the rights of the indigenous people who, along all these 500 years, have been split, fragmented, as well as the victims of genocide, repression and discrimination.”

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That was said by Rigoberta Menchú Tum — the Guatemalan indigenous activist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. She spoke those words in her Nobel acceptance/Nobel Lecture in Oslo (10 December 1992), referring to five centuries of colonization and the oppression of indigenous peoples. The full text of her lecture is available from the Nobel Prize website. Would you like the full speech, the original Spanish text, or more background on her life and work?