"To achieve real harmony, justice should be done also to the small and tiny voices, which are not supported by the might of their weight. Mankind could learn from this. So many voices in our troubled world are still unheard. Let that be an incentive for all of us when we hear the bells [of a carillon] ringing."
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Speech given by Juliana of the Netherlands on April 4, 1952, to dedicate the Netherlands Carillon
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