A story about Randall Terry
n 1992 I encountered him at an Abortion Clinic, he spit in my face as I was escorting a frightened woman inside.
TinyRubySlippers
meeting 22 people,doing 43 things,
going 43 places
What TinyRubySlippers has done in 2008
Recent stories by and about TinyRubySlippers
A story about Bill Moyers
BILL MOYERS: My mother told us never to speak ill of the dead. Ok. So let Jerry Falwell speak for himself.
from the transcript of PBS’
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL: May 18, 2007
I adore this man.
A story about Kurt Vonnegut
I met him once in NYC, I think it was some ACLU thing. He was sort of grumpy, I think he was shy.
Yesterday I came across this quote from him:
“We are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anyone tell you any different.”
It reminded me that he was wearing beat up old corduroy pants with a hole in the butt that day.
A story about Captain Mbaye Diagne
A hero, a true martyr, and a Muslim (bigots take note)
“Mbaye was bringing people from all over to the headquarters and then evacuating them or having them picked up and taken to safety elsewhere. And I don’t even know the numbers of the people that he saved. But a lot of people know who he is. A lot of people were saved by him, and not just Rwandans but famous journalists. I think they were put in positions where their lives were pretty close to an end, and he stepped in and saved them…. it was against orders, and the orders were not to intervene in the conflict. Mbaye ignored those orders, and at the same time General Dallaire knew what he was doing, never stopped him… Here’s someone who stepped out of line and the general is not going to discipline him because he’s doing the right thing. And he saved at least hundreds of people. And we’re talking about saving hundreds of people three or four at a time.”
”…I remember going to the airport subsequently when his body was being taken out under a U.N. flag. … I remember bursting into tears with a colleague of his, a Senegalese captain, and the captain said to me, “You’re a journalist; I’m a soldier. Now you’ve got to tell the world what Mbaye did. You’ve got to tell the people that he saved lots of lives, even while the UN was shamefully pulling out its troops, he was saving people’s lives. Please tell the world.” That gave me the final confirmation of what I suspected had been going on all the time anyway”
Mark Doyle, BBC World Service
“He was a hero. He was the guy that, in every movie that’s ever made you have the guy that is the tragic hero. … But this one’s real. This man was a hero to people he didn’t know and people he did know, to people who didn’t have a clue and didn’t understand why he was doing it.”
Gregory “Gromo” Alex, Head of U.N. Humanitarian Assistance Team in Rwanda
From PBS’ Frontline: Ghosts of Rwanda
