For decades I used this phrase to convey my heartfelt belief that despite our differences we Americans have one thing in common and that’s that we are all human beings–that there is a commonality to our experience and despite the fact that human nature is flawed everyone is deserving of respect because we are all human. I believed with Anne Frank that “in spite of everything…people are really good at heart” and with Martin Luther King that “ the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”