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.
Bartolomé de las Casas, In Defense of the Indians (1548), p. 40, as translated by Stafford Poole (Northern Illinois University Press: 1992).
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