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Bartolomé de las Casas was Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer. Explore interesting quotes on most.
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“The Indians were totally deprived of their freedom and were put into the harshest, fiercest, most horrible servitude and captivity which no one who has not seen it can understand. Even beasts enjoy more freedom when they are allowed to graze in the field.”

Bartolomé de las Casas

History of the Indies (1561)

“These people are the most devoid of rancors, hatreds, or desire for vengeance of any people in the world.”

Bartolomé de las Casas

History of the Indies (1561)

“More than thirty other islands in the vicinity of San Juan are for the most part and for the same reason depopulated, and the land laid waste.”

Bartolomé de las Casas

History of the Indies (1561)

“Men, from their early years, are reared in the midst of goods of the body and senses, the source of corrupt behavior, and, because they constantly deal with them, know them better. But spiritual things, the goods of reason, and things intellectual, which are far removed from the senses, they do not know as well. Because they understand and are always dealing with material things, but spiritual things are not so readily evident, it happens that men, for the most part, are plunged into sinful conduct.”

Bartolomé de las Casas

Source: In Defense of the Indians (1548), p. 37

“And of all the infinite universe of humanity, these people are the most guileless, the most devoid of wickedness and duplicity, the most obedient and faithful to their native masters and to the Spanish Christians whom they serve.”

Bartolomé de las Casas

History of the Indies (1561)