Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
-Abraham Lincoln, 1863

This is one of the most famous speeches in American history. It is not only dedicated to the soldiers who died on that Gettysburg battlefield, but it was dedicated to the soldiers still living--to work towards freedom for their nation because it is what was right. Abraham Lincoln's speech gave the union hope. It gave people the strength to keep going to fight for their rights that they deserve. 
I believe this has a lot to do with humanities because speeches I believe are considered a work of art. It is even more amazing to have a speech like that encourage an entire nation to keep going. We've seen people look at paintings in a museum and be moved by that. It's amazing to think back then people reading or even being there to hear this speech from the president and to be moved by a well written speech. It also was great because it represented them. What I like about humanities is how the work of art, literature, or anything that relates to the audience.