Special characters in shell script

I'd like to run the following one line shell script which brings up the login window.
/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend
this works form the terminal but I want to do it inside apple script using
"do shell script".
I know that I need to use some form of quoting because the path contains a special symbol (namely "space" inside "Menu Extras").
How do I do that?
Sorry for a completely newbie question. I know this is something obvious but I'm just trying out scripting.

You need to escape the escape character "\" itself by putting another in front.
Unfortunately, the discussions system is preventing me from showing it here as it's interpreting the double escape into the space character.
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