To kill a peasant is not murder; it is helping to extinguish the conflagration. Let there be no half measures! Crush them! Cut their throats! Here, there, everywhere! Whoever can, strike, slay, stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.
— Martin Luther Early Modern

Leader of the Protestant Reformation

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Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants

Date / Period

1525

Category

Shocking

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https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/luther-peasants.asp

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