Bartolome de Las Casas Quotes on Freedom
Bartolome de Las Casas was a Spanish Dominican friar, bishop of Chiapas in New Spain, and the most outspoken sixteenth-century defender of the rights of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. This page collects quotes attributed to Bartolome de Las Casas on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Bartolome de Las Casas:
“All the peoples of the world are human.”
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Attributed to Bartolome de Las Casas:
“What right have we to subjugate those who have done us no wrong?”
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Attributed to Bartolome de Las Casas:
“Christ did not come to enslave but to set free.”
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“Christ seeks souls, not property. ... He who wants a large part of mankind to be such that ... he may act like a ferocious executioner toward them, press them into slavery, and through them grow rich, is a despotic master, not a Christian; a son of Satan, not of God; a plunderer, not a shepherd.”
p. 40