“Gold is most excellent; gold constitutes treasure; and he who has it does
all he wants in the world, and can even lift souls up to Paradise. --
Christopher Columbus, 1503 letter to the king and queen of Spain.
Christopher Columbus not only opened the door to a New World, but also set
an example for us all by showing what monumental feats can be accomplished
through perseverance and faith. --George H.W. Bush, 1989 speech
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They forced their way into native settlements, slaughtering everyone they
found there, including small children, old men, pregnant women, and even
women who had just given birth. They hacked them to pieces, slicing open
their bellies with their swords as though they were so many sheep herded
into a pen. They even laid wagers on whether they could manage to slice a
man in two at a stroke, or cut an individual's head from his body, or
disembowel him with a single blow of their axes. They grabbed suckling
infants by the feet and, ripping them from their mothers' breasts, dashed
them headlong against the rocks. Others, laughing and joking all the while,
threw them over their shoulders into a river, shouting: 'Wriggle, you little
perisher.' - Father Bartolomé de Las Casas
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