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		</div><p>Hillary Clinton has reflected on her US election defeat, acknowledging the difficulty of the loss for her supporters and urging them to persevere through the Donald Trump era.</p>
<p>Speaking at the annual gala of child advocacy body the Children&#8217;s Defence Fund &#8211; where Mrs Clinton started her legal career &#8211; the defeated Democratic presidential candidate encouraged her backers to &#8220;never, ever give up&#8221;.</p>
<p>She told an audience in Washington: &#8220;I know this isn&#8217;t easy. I know that over the past week a lot of people have asked themselves whether America is the country we thought it was.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;But please listen to me when I say this: America is worth it.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>She added: <i>&#8220;It&#8217;s up to each and every one of us to keep working to make America better and stronger and fairer.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Mrs Clinton never referred to President-elect Trump by name in her remarks, making only an oblique reference to the controversial policies which fuelled his rise to the White House.</p>
<p>Instead, she focused on the future, asking her backers to <i>&#8220;stay engaged on every level. We need you. America needs your energy,&#8221;</i> she said.</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton&#8217;s surprising loss threw her party into a period of reflection, with an ascendant liberal wing blaming her campaign for failing to embrace a more populist economic message.</p>
<p>In private calls with donors and Democratic officials, Mrs Clinton has largely attributed her defeat to the decision by the FBI to re-examine her use of a private email server during her time as US secretary of state.</p>
<p>In her remarks, Mrs Clinton did not address any personal failures during her presidential campaign, though she admitted that the past week has not been easy. <i>&#8220;There have been a few times this past week when all I wanted to do was just to curl up with a good book or our dogs and never leave the house again,&#8221;</i> she admitted.</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton chose friendly ground to make her first public appearance since her emotional concession speech in New York City last Wednesday.</p>
<p>Her first job out of law school in the 1970s was for Children&#8217;s Defence Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman. She later became a staff attorney and chairman of the group&#8217;s board.</p>
<p>Throughout her campaign, she cited her work for the group as her <i>&#8220;north star&#8221;,</i> sparking her interest in standing up against injustice towards children and families.</p>
<p>The group, which helps disadvantaged children, tried to return some of that affection on Wednesday night.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;We love her and we appreciate all the hard work she has done and say it&#8217;s not going to be for naught,&#8221;</i> said Ms Edelman in her introductory remarks. <i>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to say that she is the people&#8217;s president.&#8221;</p>
<p>Still, in a sign of Mrs Clinton&#8217;s new life as a private citizen, the event lacked many of the trappings of her presidential campaign. Security was light and she travelled with only a handful of aides.</p>
<p>Sprinkled throughout the small theatre where she addressed donors and supporters were a handful of empty seats.</p>
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