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

— Bartolomé de las Casas In Defense of the Indians (1548)

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

History of the Indies (1561)

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.

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.

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.

History of the Indies (1561)

They laid bets as to who, with one stroke of the sword, could split a man in two or could cut off his head or spill out his entrails with a single stroke of the pike.

History of the Indies (1561)

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