It clearly appears that there are no races in the world, however rude, uncultivated, barbarous, gross, or almost brutal they may be, who cannot be pe…

- Bartolome De Las Casas

Later, a large band of Christians mounted an attack on this native lord, butchering him along with vast numbers of his people and taking all the surv…

- Bartolome De Las Casas

The main goal of divine Providence in [allowing] the discovery of these tribes and lands . . . is . . . the conversion and well-being of souls, and t…

- Bartolome De Las Casas

The one and only method of teaching men the true religion was established by Divine Providence for the whole world, and for all times: that is, by pe…

- Bartolome De Las Casas

I write ... in order to help ensure that the teeming millions in the New World, for whose sins Christ gave His life, do not continue to die in ignora…

- Bartolome De Las Casas

Island of Hispaniola once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million), has now a population of barely two hundre…

- Bartolome De Las Casas

The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed.

- Bartolome De Las Casas

The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence, some twenty or thi…

- Bartolome De Las Casas

"The pattern established at the outset has remained to this day, and the Spaniards still do nothing save tear the natives to shreds, murder them and …

- Bartolome De Las Casas