Bartolomé de las Casas

"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."

"And never have the Indians in all the Indies committed any act against the Spanish Christians, until those Christians have first and many times committed countless cruel aggressions against them or ag…"

"They made some low wide gallows on which the hanged victim's feet almost touched the ground, stringing up their victims in lots of thirteen, in memory of Our Redeemer and His twelve Apostles, then set…"

"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 thing…"

"Christ wanted love to be called his single commandment. This we owe to all men. Nobody is excepted."

"With still others, all those they wanted to capture alive, they cut off their hands and hung them round the victim's neck, saying, "Go now, carry the message," meaning, Take the news to the Indians wh…"

"It should be kept in mind that their insatiable greed and ambition, the greatest ever seen in the world, is the cause of their villainies."

"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, an…"