America Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Columbus sent home shiploads of Indians to be sold as slaves, but the theologians protested, the Queen's conscience rebelled, and enslavement of the Indians…

— J.H. Elliott

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

“From the legal point of view it was early established that the Indians were the proprietors of all lands which they possessed and cultivated…

— J.H. Elliott

“The Spanish had butchered the Indians with a clean conscience because they were confident that they knew what a normal human being was. Their…

— Alain de Botton

“Christopher Columbus and his brothers were no different from many of the Spanish adventurers of the time. They were a roughhewn lot, who wrote…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba

"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

“For while those like Señor Coma of Aragon were drawing a parallel between darkness of flesh and commitment to cannibalism—while Columbus and others were…

— David E. Stannard

“First perfected by Cortés in Mexico, it was based on the observation that the best way for the Spanish to subdue opposition was to…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“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

“This (white settlers) was the section of humanity that was favored in that place, the Indians had no place no more there. Their tickets…

— Sebastian Barry

“that the only Indians who went on trial were”

— Katherine Boo

It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of…

— Anonymous