De Las Casas Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

“the king was talking with Bartolomé de las Casas, a fiery Dominican priest who had just completed Brief Account of the Destruction of the…

— Charles C. Mann

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

— James Clavell

In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity:…

— Juan Gines de Sepulveda

“In the narrative of his third voyage Columbus wrote: "For I believe that the earthly Paradise lies here, which no one can enter except…

— Paul Auster

“What happened in 1518 and 1519 is not. In those years, according to Bartolomé de Las Casas, a missionary priest who lived through the…

— Charles C. Mann

“forsaken him. The priests who serve the”

— Zondervan

“While under the Spanish flag, the Crown rigorously controlled the number of slaves allowed into Cuba and charged the settlers a 20% royalty for…

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

“WERE, SAY, A SPANISH PEASANT TO HAVE fallen asleep in AD 1000 and woken up 500 years later, to the din of Columbus’ sailors…

— Yuval Noah Harari

At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.

— Zebulon Pike

“it could be argued that it actually began thousands of years ago. Long before the Marxists came. Before the British took Malabar, before the…

— Arundhati Roy

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

— Bartolome de las Casas

“On November 27, 1493, when Columbus returned to Navidad, he found that the 39 crew members that he had left behind had been murdered,…

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba