“Blessed are the persecuted
And blessed are the pure in heart
Blessed are the merciful
And blessed are the ones who mourn”

— Joan Baez

"The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti, Part One"
Sacco e Vanzetti (1971)

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American singer 1941

Jun Hong Lu (1959) Australian Buddhist leader

Sydney, (9 June 2011)[citation needed].

“Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted.”

William Tyndale (1494–1536) Bible translator and agitator from England

Matthew 5:4.
Tyndale's translations

“Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi

With each beatitude the gulf is widened between the disciples and the people, their call to come forth from the people becomes increasingly manifest. By “mourning” Jesus, of course, means doing without what the world calls peace and prosperity: He means refusing to be in tune with the world or to accommodate oneself to its standards. Such men mourn for the world, for its guilt, its fate, and its fortune.
Source: Discipleship (1937), The Beatitudes, p. 108.

“Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Nobody said when.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 15 (p. 89)

“I haven’t heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere.
"Blessed are the merciful" in a courtroom? "Blessed are the peacemakers" in the Pentagon? Give me a break!”

Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) American writer

Cold Turkey (2004)
Context: For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course that’s Moses, not Jesus. I haven’t heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere.
"Blessed are the merciful" in a courtroom? "Blessed are the peacemakers" in the Pentagon? Give me a break!