The fact that its a sensitive issue is only due to people's lack of understanding. Saying we are from apes is not saying 'we come from monkeys'.

On the contrary, both monkeys and humans, as well as gorillas and chimps, all come from a completely ddifference ancestor.

So although the image in this post is a famous representation of evolution, it's actually oversimplified and leaves people to misinterpret. This is more accurate:

As you can see, a variety of apes and monkeys separated from us millions of years ago, the most recent being the Chimp (also the bonobo).

So yes, all of us are apes, but we are not descended from chimps, nor monkeys, nor gorillas. We are all from one ancestor that is long extinct.

This is also why we are not 'more evolved' than gorillas. We are in fact equally evolved as them. We just happened to get bigger brains, while they got bigger muscles.