Bartolomé de las Casas: Quotes about women

Bartolomé de las Casas was Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer. Explore interesting quotes on women.

Bartolomé de las Casas: 42 quotes16 likes

“We can estimate very surely and truthfully that in the forty years that have passed, with the infernal actions of the Christians, there have been unjustly slain more than twelve million men, women, and children. In truth, I believe without trying to deceive myself that the number of the slain is more like fifty million.”

Bartolomé de las Casas

History of the Indies (1561)

“After the wars and the killings had ended, when usually there survived only some boys, some women, and children, these survivors were distributed among the Christians to be slaves.”

Bartolomé de las Casas

History of the Indies (1561)

“They attacked the towns and spared neither the children nor the aged nor pregnant women nor women in childbed, not only stabbing them and dismembering them but cutting them to pieces as if dealing with sheep in the slaughter house.”

Bartolomé de las Casas

History of the Indies (1561)